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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Humor.
(b) Veracity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Power.

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.
(a) Priests.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Prisoners.

3. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Judgemental.
(c) Biased.
(d) Artifice.

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

5. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Walt.
(b) Phillip.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Joe.

6. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Animals.
(b) Class.
(c) Society.
(d) Books.

7. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Positive.
(b) Obscure.
(c) Modern.
(d) Irrelevant.

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

9. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Humanism.
(b) Picarism.
(c) Truthism.
(d) Realism.

10. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) The underworld.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Criminal activity.
(d) Children.

11. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Impressionist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Nihilist.
(d) Surrealist.

12. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.
(a) Big.
(b) Important.
(c) Good.
(d) Old.

13. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Paper.
(b) People.
(c) Nature.
(d) Social abjection.

14. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Roptist.
(b) Nihilist.
(c) Realist.
(d) Surrealist.

15. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.
(a) Laws.
(b) Government.
(c) Photography.
(d) Mirrors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?

3. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

4. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.

5. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?

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