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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Steichen.
(b) Arbus.
(c) Stieglitz.
(d) Whitman.

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

3. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Dated.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Anecdotal.

4. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.
(a) Duly earned.
(b) True.
(c) Extreme.
(d) Abject.

5. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.
(a) Judgemental.
(b) Biased.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Artifice.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

5. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

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