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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) Objects.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Scarecrows.

2. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.
(a) Animalistic.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Rich.
(d) Bizarre.

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

4. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Scary.
(d) Normal.

5. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Silly.
(b) Untrained.
(c) Darkened.
(d) Illegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

2. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

3. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

4. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

5. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

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