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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Closing their eyes.
(c) Committment.
(d) Intervention.

2. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.
(a) Moralists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Students.

3. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.
(a) Sensitivities.
(b) Inhibitions.
(c) Trust.
(d) Understanding.

4. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Lying.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Common.
(d) Darker.

5. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Individual.
(b) Color.
(c) Word.
(d) Image.

6. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Photography.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Criticisms.
(d) Superficial distinctions.

7. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Weird.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Exactly the same.
(d) Unnatural.

8. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) European.
(d) South American.

9. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.
(a) Extreme.
(b) Abject.
(c) True.
(d) Duly earned.

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

11. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?
(a) African.
(b) European.
(c) South American.
(d) American.

12. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Illegal.
(b) Untrained.
(c) Darkened.
(d) Silly.

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

14. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.
(a) Universal.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Scattered.
(d) Honest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

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

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

4. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

5. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

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