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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heroism of Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Lighting.
(c) Colors.
(d) Original beauty.

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

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

4. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Positive.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Modern.
(d) Obscure.

5. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Limitations.
(c) Value.
(d) Flaws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?

2. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

3. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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

5. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.

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