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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) Sharp.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Proper.

2. Some photographers are _________, seeking to clarify or to identify a world vision.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Students.
(c) Moralists.
(d) Teachers.

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

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

5. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) People.
(b) Reality.
(c) Nature.
(d) Children.

6. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1928.

7. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) Nothing.
(b) All humans.
(c) The world's darkness.
(d) Everything.

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

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

10. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) High income.
(b) Low income.
(c) Feral.
(d) Freak.

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

12. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Their days.
(b) Their families.
(c) Reality.
(d) Their food.

13. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Believe in it.
(b) Understand it.
(c) Change it.
(d) Expose it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.

3. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

4. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

5. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.

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