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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.
(a) Reality.
(b) Justice.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Truth.

2. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Nihilist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Surrealist.

3. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.
(a) Pity.
(b) Power.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Attention.

4. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) Low income.
(b) High income.
(c) Freak.
(d) Feral.

5. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Common.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Darker.
(d) Lying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

3. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.

4. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?

5. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.

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