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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) Rules.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Morals.
(d) Laws.

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

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) A need.
(b) A desire.
(c) Permission.
(d) A push.

4. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."
(a) Blood.
(b) Glitter.
(c) A ribbon.
(d) Lace.

5. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Dark corners.
(b) Freaks.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Rich.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.

3. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

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

(see the answer key)

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