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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Mimetic.
(c) Sharp.
(d) Proper.

3. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) Nature.
(b) Reality.
(c) People.
(d) Children.

4. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Women.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Children.
(d) Men.

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

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

7. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.
(a) Old.
(b) Important.
(c) Good.
(d) Big.

8. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Colors.
(c) Real objects.
(d) Faith.

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

10. Some photographers are _________, seeking to clarify or to identify a world vision.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Moralists.
(c) Students.
(d) Teachers.

11. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Criticisms.
(b) Photography.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Superficial distinctions.

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

13. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.
(a) Sensitivities.
(b) Trust.
(c) Inhibitions.
(d) Understanding.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.

2. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

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

4. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.

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

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