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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cartier-Bresson, in the introduction of his book, justified his unwillingness to use _________ by citing technical limitations.
(a) Tripods.
(b) Film.
(c) Color.
(d) Digital cameras.

2. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.
(a) Families.
(b) Groups.
(c) Freaks.
(d) Individuals.

3. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Worth.
(b) Inspection.
(c) Pity.
(d) Deity.

4. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Tampering.
(b) Retouching.
(c) Burning.
(d) Altering.

5. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.
(a) Understood.
(b) Honest.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.

3. Within photography have also been loosely organized __________, though not as strong as painting has had.

4. And others believe that all proficient photographers must metaphysically ________ the object which they are photographing.

5. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?

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