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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 was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Chemical engineer.
(b) Poet.
(c) Novelist.
(d) President.

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

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

4. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?
(a) High art.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Truth telling.
(d) Assembly line.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

2. ___________ often reveal beauty that is not normally seen, according to Sontag in this chapter.

3. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

4. Many people fear being photographed because they fear the camera's ___________ of their looks.

5. Most continue to claim that photography is entirely _________, according to the research of Sontag.

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