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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.
(a) Truth.
(b) Peace.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Commonality.

3. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Permission.
(b) Enjoyment.
(c) Naughtiness.
(d) Fetishism.

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

5. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) Possible.
(b) Official.
(c) True.
(d) Real.

6. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.
(a) The ether.
(b) The world.
(c) God.
(d) True desire.

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

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

9. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Perfect.
(b) Honest.
(c) Rich.
(d) Normal.

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

11. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.
(a) Reality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Justice.

12. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Inspection.
(b) Worth.
(c) Deity.
(d) Pity.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.

2. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

3. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

4. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

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

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