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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.
(a) Accidents.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reality.
(d) Justice.

2. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Normal.
(b) Rich.
(c) Honest.
(d) Perfect.

3. Some photographers are _________, seeking to clarify or to identify a world vision.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Students.
(c) Moralists.
(d) Teachers.

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

5. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.
(a) Government.
(b) Photography.
(c) Laws.
(d) Mirrors.

Short Answer Questions

1. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.

2. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

3. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

4. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

5. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.

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