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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Superficial distinctions.
(b) Photography.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Criticisms.

3. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1828.

4. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Frozen in time.
(b) Stationary.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Death.

5. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.
(a) Students.
(b) Moralists.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.

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

3. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

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

5. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

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