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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. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.
(a) Music.
(b) Real.
(c) Horror.
(d) Happiness.

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

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

4. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Statues.
(c) Scarecrows.
(d) Objects.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

2. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

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

5. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

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