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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) Criminal activity.
(b) Children.
(c) Masturbation.
(d) The underworld.

2. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Worth.
(b) Inspection.
(c) Pity.
(d) Deity.

3. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Roptist.
(b) Nihilist.
(c) Realist.
(d) Surrealist.

4. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Expose it.
(b) Believe in it.
(c) Understand it.
(d) Change it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

3. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.

4. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

5. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

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