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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. The very act of ____________ something new casts it as something new and beautiful.
(a) Naming.
(b) Exposing.
(c) Photographing.
(d) Finding.

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

3. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.
(a) Moving.
(b) Still.
(c) Vapid.
(d) Normal.

4. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.
(a) Universal.
(b) Mimetic.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Fine.

5. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Normal.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Scary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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

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

5. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

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