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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. _____________ is easy, rapid, and can be performed by just about anyone, according to Sontag.
(a) Photography.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Painting.
(d) Carving.

2. Some photographers are _________, seeking to clarify or to identify a world vision.
(a) Students.
(b) Moralists.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Teachers.

3. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.
(a) Artifice.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Biased.
(d) Judgemental.

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Criticisms.
(c) Photography.
(d) Superficial distinctions.

5. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Dated.
(d) Anecdotal.

Short Answer Questions

1. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.

2. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

3. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.

4. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?

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

(see the answer key)

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