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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Women.

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

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

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

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

10. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Children.
(b) Cars.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Pets.

11. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.
(a) Attention.
(b) Power.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Pity.

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

13. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Value.
(b) Reality.
(c) Color.
(d) Scale.

14. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) A need.
(b) Permission.
(c) A push.
(d) A desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

2. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

4. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?

5. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.

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