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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. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.
(a) Books.
(b) Drama.
(c) Subjects.
(d) Audiences.

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

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

4. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Deformed.
(b) Lepers.
(c) Insane.
(d) Prostitutes.

5. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.
(a) Honest.
(b) True.
(c) Photographed.
(d) Necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

2. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

3. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

4. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

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

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