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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An audience cares about the subject being photographed, yet wants little to do with the _______________.
(a) Frame.
(b) Price.
(c) Gallery.
(d) Photographer.

2. "Despite the efforts of contemporary photographers to exorcise the _____________, something lingers."
(a) Demons.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Specter of art.

3. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?
(a) Truth telling.
(b) Forgery.
(c) High art.
(d) Assembly line.

4. In China, photography is subsumed by the state _______________ apparatus, according to the book's findings.
(a) Moral.
(b) Government.
(c) Christian.
(d) Propaganda.

5. What art has had to struggle to become a high art, though others have not had to work as hard to get to that title?
(a) Carving.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Photography.
(d) Painting.

6. "For the modernist promotion of naive art always contains a _______; that one continue to honor its hidden claim to sophistication."
(a) Spade.
(b) Diamond.
(c) Joker.
(d) Ace.

7. "_______- proud hosts may well pull out photographs of the place to show visitors how really splendid it is."
(a) Baby.
(b) Wealth.
(c) School.
(d) Family.

8. The reaction to the film in China is illustrative of an essential ____________ difference in the way that photography is understood.
(a) Societal.
(b) Military.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Gender.

9. Just like painting and other forms of art, photography has had various ____________.
(a) Innovations.
(b) Movements.
(c) Authors.
(d) Critics.

10. Photographs are also displayed in ___________ as paintings are for others to see and to experience.
(a) Schools.
(b) Photo albums.
(c) Banks.
(d) Galleries.

11. Photographs are presented as sophisticated ____________, though they are made with little more than a click of a button.
(a) Frames.
(b) Renditions.
(c) Sculptures.
(d) Masterpieces.

12. _____________ were circulated condemning the film as a gross mischaracterization of China and the Chinese.
(a) Phone calls.
(b) Letters.
(c) Emails.
(d) Pamplets.

13. And others believe that all proficient photographers must metaphysically ________ the object which they are photographing.
(a) Connect with.
(b) Become.
(c) Link to.
(d) Understand.

14. Chinese tastes favor well-______________ presentations within photography, according to the book.
(a) Centered.
(b) Honored.
(c) Discussed.
(d) Celebrated.

15. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Burning.
(b) Retouching.
(c) Altering.
(d) Tampering.

Short Answer Questions

1. By __________, photography became an acceptable part of modern day life, according to the book.

2. The main question becomes whether photography is a high art or if it is merely a __________ reproduction by a machine.

3. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.

4. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.

5. Photographs present the real, but it is a ________ real of acquisition via mechanical duplication, according to the chapter.

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