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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Collecting photographs is easy. What is NOT one of the reasons for the ease of collecting photographs, according to this chapter?
(a) They can be stored on a computer.
(b) They are small.
(c) They are durable.
(d) They are easily transportable.

2. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.
(a) Innocent.
(b) Happy.
(c) Cliche.
(d) Dense.

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

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

5. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.
(a) Honest.
(b) True.
(c) Necessary.
(d) Photographed.

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

7. Most continue to claim that photography is entirely _________, according to the research of Sontag.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Innocent.

8. The very act of ____________ something new casts it as something new and beautiful.
(a) Photographing.
(b) Finding.
(c) Naming.
(d) Exposing.

9. _____________ is easy, rapid, and can be performed by just about anyone, according to Sontag.
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Carving.
(c) Painting.
(d) Photography.

10. The question becomes whether photography is a ___________ process of documentation via machine, or not.
(a) Scientific.
(b) Automatic.
(c) Honored.
(d) Truthful.

11. Even though photographs are generally consistent, _________ tastes in photography exist and change over time.
(a) Public.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Critic.
(d) Hotel.

12. __________ is difficult, tedious, and performed by skilled experts, according to Sontag in this book.
(a) Carving.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Photography.

13. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.
(a) Alignment.
(b) Technique.
(c) Approach.
(d) Structure.

14. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.
(a) Landscape.
(b) Album.
(c) Family.
(d) Portrait.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.

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

3. Balzac was one of many philosophers who believed that photographs are somehow permanently invasive of the process of ________.

4. Painting allows for __________ vision, while photography does not require this sort of vision.

5. Paintings, however accurate or realistic, are not the object, but a ___________ of that object.

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