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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) True.
(b) Real.
(c) Official.
(d) Possible.

2. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Obscure.
(b) Positive.
(c) Modern.
(d) Irrelevant.

3. "Despite the efforts of contemporary photographers to exorcise the _____________, something lingers."
(a) Specter of art.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Demons.
(d) Ordinary.

4. By __________, photography became an acceptable part of modern day life, according to the book.
(a) 1854.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1839.

5. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Watery.
(b) Just.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Artistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

2. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.

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

4. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

5. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

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