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

2. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.
(a) Dark.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Impressionistic.
(d) Unaware.

3. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of All.
(b) Family of Man.
(c) Family of One.
(d) Family of the Universal.

4. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) Low income.
(b) High income.
(c) Freak.
(d) Feral.

5. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Rules.
(c) Morals.
(d) Innocence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

2. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.

3. ___________ often reveal beauty that is not normally seen, according to Sontag in this chapter.

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

5. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

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