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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 is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Blackness.
(b) Shadows.
(c) White.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.
(a) Over exposure.
(b) Subjects.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Colors.

4. _____________ is easy, rapid, and can be performed by just about anyone, according to Sontag.
(a) Painting.
(b) Carving.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Photography.

5. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.
(a) Land.
(b) Real world.
(c) Colors.
(d) Emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

2. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

3. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.

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?

5. "For the modernist promotion of naive art always contains a _______; that one continue to honor its hidden claim to sophistication."

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