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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag.
(a) Art.
(b) Society.
(c) Expansion.
(d) Literature.

2. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Forest.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Trivial.
(d) Beauty.

3. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Insane.
(c) Deformed.
(d) Lepers.

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

5. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Rich.
(b) Normal.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Honest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is NOT one of the authors presented in the section about photography in the literary world?

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

3. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.

4. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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

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