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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. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Poet.
(b) President.
(c) Chemical engineer.
(d) Novelist.

2. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Accomplishment.
(b) Committment.
(c) Technology.
(d) Art.

3. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Their food.
(b) Their days.
(c) Their families.
(d) Reality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

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

3. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

4. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

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

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