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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. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Technology.
(b) Committment.
(c) Art.
(d) Accomplishment.

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

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A picture.
(b) A sense.
(c) A word.
(d) A shape.

4. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.
(a) Emotions.
(b) Real world.
(c) Colors.
(d) Land.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?

4. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.

5. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

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