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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Laws.
(b) Morals.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Rules.

2. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?
(a) American.
(b) South American.
(c) African.
(d) European.

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

4. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Diction.
(c) Evidence.
(d) Power.

5. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.
(a) Morals.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Rules.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

3. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

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

5. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

(see the answer key)

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