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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Photographic Evangels.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Scale.
(b) Reality.
(c) Color.
(d) Value.

3. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Death.
(b) Stationary.
(c) Frozen in time.
(d) Confusing.

4. In general, modern photography claims that the ___________ is irrelevant within the picture's creation.
(a) Subject.
(b) Photographer.
(c) Alignment.
(d) Structure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

2. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

3. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

4. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

5. As a new art, photography constantly undergoes constant __________ as it must always be innovative.

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