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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Steichen.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Arbus.
(d) Stieglitz.

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

3. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1828.

4. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Humor.
(b) Veracity.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

5. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) Real.
(b) True.
(c) Possible.
(d) Official.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

4. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

5. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.

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