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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) True ego.
(b) Wild ride.
(c) Death trip.
(d) Power trip.

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

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

12. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Objects.
(b) Statues.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Scarecrows.

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

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

15. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Authors.
(b) Class.
(c) Frame.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

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