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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Disgusting.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Dark.

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

3. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?
(a) European.
(b) African.
(c) South American.
(d) American.

4. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Students.
(d) Moralists.

5. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Limitations.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Flaws.
(d) Value.

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

7. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Roy Emerson Stryker.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

8. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Dark corners.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Rich.
(d) Freaks.

9. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of the Universal.
(b) Family of One.
(c) Family of Man.
(d) Family of All.

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

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

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

13. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.
(a) Morals.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Rules.

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

15. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) The underworld.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Children.
(d) Criminal activity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.

2. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

3. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.

4. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

5. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

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