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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. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Fetishism.
(b) Naughtiness.
(c) Enjoyment.
(d) Permission.

2. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of the Universal.
(b) Family of Man.
(c) Family of One.
(d) Family of All.

3. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Identity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Community.
(d) Understanding.

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

5. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Weird.
(b) Exactly the same.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Deformed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.

3. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

4. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

5. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

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