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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. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Women.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Children.
(d) Men.

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

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) A desire.
(b) Permission.
(c) A push.
(d) A need.

4. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.
(a) Achievement.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Measurment.
(d) Work.

5. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Closing their eyes.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Intervention.
(d) Committment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

2. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.

3. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

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

5. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

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