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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. Photography freed ____________ from the reproductive arts, according to Sontag's writing in this book.
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Carving.
(c) Stage plays.
(d) Painting.

2. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.
(a) Pity.
(b) Power.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Attention.

3. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Frame.
(b) Art.
(c) Authors.
(d) Class.

4. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.
(a) Powerful.
(b) Democratizing.
(c) Younger.
(d) Rich.

5. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.
(a) Landscape.
(b) Family.
(c) Portrait.
(d) Album.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ is difficult, tedious, and performed by skilled experts, according to Sontag in this book.

2. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?

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

4. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.

5. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

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