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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Work.
(c) Measurment.
(d) Achievement.

2. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.
(a) Accord.
(b) Concord.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Truth.

3. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.
(a) Transpired.
(b) Been a success.
(c) Touched others in the event.
(d) Begun.

4. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Joy.
(b) Denial.
(c) Permission.
(d) Encouragement.

5. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Technology.
(b) Art.
(c) Accomplishment.
(d) Committment.

6. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A picture.
(b) A sense.
(c) A shape.
(d) A word.

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

8. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of All.
(b) Family of Man.
(c) Family of the Universal.
(d) Family of One.

9. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Mimetic.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Proper.
(d) Sharp.

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

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

12. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.
(a) Dark.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Disgusting.

13. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.
(a) Rich.
(b) Younger.
(c) Democratizing.
(d) Powerful.

14. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Dated.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Anecdotal.

15. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Bizarre.
(c) Animalistic.
(d) Rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

2. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?

3. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

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

5. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

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