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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Statues.
(b) Scarecrows.
(c) Objects.
(d) Soldiers.

2. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Insane.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Deformed.
(d) Lepers.

3. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Scale.
(b) Color.
(c) Value.
(d) Reality.

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.
(a) Truth.
(b) Accord.
(c) Concord.
(d) Wonder.

5. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Proper.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Sharp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

2. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.

3. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

4. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

5. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

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