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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) Shadows.
(b) White.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Blackness.

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

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

4. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Innovation.
(b) Identity.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) Honor.

5. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Laws.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Rules.
(d) Morals.

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

7. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Worship.
(c) Money.
(d) Looking at.

8. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.
(a) Individuals.
(b) Groups.
(c) Freaks.
(d) Families.

9. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Useful.
(b) Important.
(c) Dark.
(d) Dramatic.

10. 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.

11. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Permission.
(b) Joy.
(c) Encouragement.
(d) Denial.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.

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

3. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

4. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

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

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