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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Commonality.
(c) Truth.
(d) Peace.

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Value.
(b) Color.
(c) Reality.
(d) Scale.

3. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Veracity.
(b) Power.
(c) Truth.
(d) Humor.

4. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.
(a) Photography.
(b) Laws.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) Government.

5. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Flaws.
(b) Limitations.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Value.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

2. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

3. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.

4. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

5. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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