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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Realist.
(b) Roptist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Nihilist.

2. "For the modernist promotion of naive art always contains a _______; that one continue to honor its hidden claim to sophistication."
(a) Joker.
(b) Ace.
(c) Spade.
(d) Diamond.

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

4. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Their food.
(b) Their families.
(c) Their days.
(d) Reality.

5. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.
(a) Photographed.
(b) True.
(c) Honest.
(d) Necessary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.

3. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?

4. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

5. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

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