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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) Limitations.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Flaws.

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

3. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.
(a) Emotions.
(b) Land.
(c) Colors.
(d) Real world.

4. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Image.
(b) Word.
(c) Color.
(d) Individual.

5. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.
(a) Bizarre.
(b) Rich.
(c) Animalistic.
(d) Ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

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

3. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.

4. Another method of falsifying photographs is to falsely __________ them, according to Sontag's findings.

5. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

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