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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At times in the photography movement, the __________ is considered important while at other times it is not.
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Placement.
(c) Subject.
(d) Photographer.

2. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Rules.
(b) Morals.
(c) Laws.
(d) Ideas.

3. Collecting photographs is easy. What is NOT one of the reasons for the ease of collecting photographs, according to this chapter?
(a) They can be stored on a computer.
(b) They are small.
(c) They are easily transportable.
(d) They are durable.

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

5. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Power.
(b) Diction.
(c) Evidence.
(d) Measurement.

Short Answer Questions

1. An audience cares about the subject being photographed, yet wants little to do with the _______________.

2. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.

3. "Despite the efforts of contemporary photographers to exorcise the _____________, something lingers."

4. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

5. In general, modern photography claims that the ___________ is irrelevant within the picture's creation.

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