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

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

3. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Shadows.
(b) Blackness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) White.

4. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Flaws.
(c) Value.
(d) Limitations.

5. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Joy.
(b) Denial.
(c) Encouragement.
(d) Permission.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

2. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.

3. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

5. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

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