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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Picarism.
(b) Truthism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Humanism.

2. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) All humans.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) The world's darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Society.
(b) Animals.
(c) Class.
(d) Books.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.
(a) Younger.
(b) Democratizing.
(c) Rich.
(d) Powerful.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

3. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

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

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

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