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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Evidence.
(b) Power.
(c) Measurement.
(d) Diction.

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

10. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Art.
(b) Authors.
(c) Class.
(d) Frame.

11. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?
(a) African.
(b) European.
(c) South American.
(d) American.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

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

4. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.

5. Some photographers are _________, seeking to clarify or to identify a world vision.

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