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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."
(a) A ribbon.
(b) Blood.
(c) Lace.
(d) Glitter.

2. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.
(a) Original beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Colors.
(d) Lighting.

3. This chapter says that society seems to prefer ________ to things, and continues to repeat this idea throughout the text.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Images.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Photographers.

4. Many tribes view the act of taking pictures of something or of someone as ______________.
(a) Soul stealing.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Evil.
(d) Unnecessary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.

2. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.

3. In China, photography is subsumed by the state _______________ apparatus, according to the book's findings.

4. Photographs cannot ___________ of something and are therefore obviously reproductive or mimetic.

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

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