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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.
(a) Worship.
(b) Looking at.
(c) Avoidance.
(d) Money.

2. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.
(a) Important.
(b) Old.
(c) Good.
(d) Big.

3. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Color.
(b) Word.
(c) Image.
(d) Individual.

4. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Obscure.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

5. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.
(a) Rich.
(b) Animalistic.
(c) Bizarre.
(d) Ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

2. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

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

4. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

5. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.

(see the answer key)

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