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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs make ____________ safe and concrete, according to Sontag. Some prefer photographs to reality.
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Reality.
(d) Traveling.

2. Paintings, however accurate or realistic, are not the object, but a ___________ of that object.
(a) Shadow.
(b) Guess.
(c) Rendering.
(d) Design.

3. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Understand.
(b) Clean up.
(c) Manufacture.
(d) Document.

4. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.
(a) Funny.
(b) Banal.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Violent.

5. Photography freed ____________ from the reproductive arts, according to Sontag's writing in this book.
(a) Stage plays.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Painting.
(d) Carving.

6. This chapter says that society seems to prefer ________ to things, and continues to repeat this idea throughout the text.
(a) Images.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Photographers.

7. Who is NOT one of the authors presented in the section about photography in the literary world?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Herman Melville.
(d) Marcel Proust.

8. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.
(a) Colors.
(b) Truth.
(c) Original beauty.
(d) Lighting.

9. Photographs present the real, but it is a ________ real of acquisition via mechanical duplication, according to the chapter.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Sham.
(c) Darker.
(d) Weak.

10. The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag.
(a) Society.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Expansion.

11. What is the question plaguing most photographic theory of the 1970s, according to Sontag in this chapter?
(a) Is photography art?
(b) Does the subject exist?
(c) Does art matter?
(d) How is photography real?

12. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.
(a) Abstract.
(b) Unaware.
(c) Dark.
(d) Impressionistic.

13. Some cultures feel that the image is in fact part of the _________, according to this chapter of the book.
(a) Future.
(b) Past.
(c) Real.
(d) Truth.

14. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Peace.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Innocence.

15. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Watery.
(b) Just.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Artistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.

2. Most - nearly all - __________ images are photographs, according to Sontag's findings.

3. What kind of film did Antonioni make about the Chinese culture and family life?

4. As a new art, photography constantly undergoes constant __________ as it must always be innovative.

5. Some champion total self ____________ for the photographer in order to capture subjects in the way that makes sense for an audience.

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