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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many tribes view the act of taking pictures of something or of someone as ______________.
(a) Evil.
(b) Soul stealing.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Truthful.

2. Some theorize that photography allows the artist to capture __________ during an off-guard moment.
(a) Reality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Evil.

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

4. Cartier-Bresson, in the introduction of his book, justified his unwillingness to use _________ by citing technical limitations.
(a) Film.
(b) Tripods.
(c) Digital cameras.
(d) Color.

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

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

7. What is NOT one of the things that the Chinese expect from photography, which can cause a disconnect?
(a) Logical transitions.
(b) Fast camera motion.
(c) Healthy topics.
(d) Posed scenes.

8. Balzac was one of many philosophers who believed that photographs are somehow permanently invasive of the process of ________.
(a) Discovery.
(b) Reality.
(c) Experience.
(d) Truth.

9. The film that Antonioni produced about the life of the Chinese was not shown in China until _____________.
(a) 2005.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

10. Others believe that photography is purely _________ and entirely devoid of interpretation in a subjective sense.
(a) Dull.
(b) Evil.
(c) Pixels.
(d) Objective.

11. The collection of photographs is carried to the extreme in ____________, where these images are horded.
(a) Pornography.
(b) Families.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Tourism.

12. 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.

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

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

15. Photography enjoyed a boost when the public learned that photographs could be ______________.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Altered.
(c) Kept forever.
(d) Digitized.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.

3. Photographs are also displayed in ___________ as paintings are for others to see and to experience.

4. In later times, photography came to be viewed as an art, then as a high art, and today it is esteemed as a modern __________.

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

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