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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?
(a) South American.
(b) American.
(c) African.
(d) European.

2. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Settler Administration.
(b) Farm Service Association.
(c) Farm Service Administration.
(d) Farm Security Administration.

3. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Blackness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) White.
(d) Shadows.

4. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Fetishism.
(b) Enjoyment.
(c) Naughtiness.
(d) Permission.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.

3. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.

4. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?

5. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

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