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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sontag seems stereotype inscrutable Chinese values, smacking of the anti-Chinese ____________ in her time.
(a) Feelings.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Movement.

3. Painting is usually done of ________ subjects, while photography uses different subjects in its frames.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Animal.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Pretty.

4. The overall discussion in this chapter is that on some level, in photography, images are or supersede __________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) Darkness.
(d) God.

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

6. Photographs are clearly superior at recording information in comparison to __________.
(a) Listening.
(b) Painting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Interviewing.

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

8. Most - nearly all - __________ images are photographs, according to Sontag's findings.
(a) Authoritative.
(b) Surrealistic.
(c) Great.
(d) Effective.

9. 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) Photography.
(b) Painting.
(c) Carving.
(d) Sculpting.

10. In later times, photography came to be viewed as an art, then as a high art, and today it is esteemed as a modern __________.
(a) Rich art.
(b) Young art.
(c) Travesty.
(d) High art.

11. Another method of falsifying photographs is to falsely __________ them, according to Sontag's findings.
(a) Caption.
(b) Color.
(c) Develop.
(d) Frame.

12. Painting allows for __________ vision, while photography does not require this sort of vision.
(a) Artisitic.
(b) Dissociative.
(c) Honest.
(d) Clear.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In general, modern photography claims that the ___________ is irrelevant within the picture's creation.

3. The film that Antonioni produced about the life of the Chinese was not shown in China until _____________.

4. Photography enjoyed a boost when the public learned that photographs could be ______________.

5. Within photography have also been loosely organized __________, though not as strong as painting has had.

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