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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Image-World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Colors.
(b) Faith.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Real objects.

2. 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.

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

4. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Dark.
(b) Dramatic.
(c) Important.
(d) Useful.

5. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Document.
(b) Manufacture.
(c) Understand.
(d) Clean up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

2. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.

3. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?

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

5. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.

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