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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Untrained.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Silly.
(d) Darkened.

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Priests.

3. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.
(a) Moving.
(b) Normal.
(c) Still.
(d) Vapid.

4. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Roy Emerson Stryker.

5. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Normal.
(b) Scary.
(c) Freaks.
(d) Deadly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

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

4. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.

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

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