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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A sense.
(b) A picture.
(c) A word.
(d) A shape.

2. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Realist.
(b) Nihilist.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Surrealist.

3. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Identity.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Honor.
(d) Innovation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.

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

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

4. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.

5. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

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