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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. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Proper.
(b) Sharp.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Truthful.

2. "_______- proud hosts may well pull out photographs of the place to show visitors how really splendid it is."
(a) School.
(b) Baby.
(c) Family.
(d) Wealth.

3. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Arbus.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Stieglitz.
(d) Steichen.

4. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) White.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Blackness.
(d) Nothing.

5. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) True ego.
(b) Wild ride.
(c) Death trip.
(d) Power trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.

2. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

3. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

4. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

5. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.

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