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

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Women.
(c) Priests.
(d) Children.

3. Photography freed ____________ from the reproductive arts, according to Sontag's writing in this book.
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Stage plays.
(c) Painting.
(d) Carving.

4. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Altering.
(b) Retouching.
(c) Burning.
(d) Tampering.

5. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Understood.
(c) Honest.
(d) Beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.

2. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

3. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.

4. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

5. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

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