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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Blackness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) White.
(d) Shadows.

2. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Stieglitz.
(b) Arbus.
(c) Steichen.
(d) Whitman.

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

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

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

6. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Deformed.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Lepers.
(d) Insane.

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

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

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

10. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.
(a) Artifacts.
(b) Arguments.
(c) Mementos.
(d) Stories.

11. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.
(a) Trust.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Sensitivities.
(d) Inhibitions.

12. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Trivial.
(b) Forest.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Beauty.

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

14. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.
(a) Real.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Music.
(d) Horror.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?

2. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.

3. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.

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

5. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.

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