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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Terrence.
(b) Joe.
(c) Phillip.
(d) Walt.

2. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Nihilist.
(b) Roptist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Realist.

3. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Novelist.
(b) Chemical engineer.
(c) Poet.
(d) President.

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

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

6. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Community.
(c) Identity.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

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

11. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Change.
(c) Morality.
(d) Government.

12. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Children.
(b) Cars.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Pets.

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

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

15. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Deformed.
(b) Exactly the same.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Weird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

2. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

3. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

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

5. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.

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