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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a new art, photography constantly undergoes constant __________ as it must always be innovative.
(a) Framing.
(b) Technological advances.
(c) Revision.
(d) Exposure.

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

3. Who was rendered with Antonioni's typical flair and technique, featuring long shots, close-ups, jarring juxtaposition, and a focus on the ordinary?
(a) Chung Koan.
(b) Chung Kuo.
(c) Chang Kon.
(d) Ching Kon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.
(a) Fads.
(b) Worthless.
(c) Truths.
(d) Cutting edge.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Just like painting and other forms of art, photography has had various ____________.

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

4. Some theorize that the practice of photography allows the disclosure of a ___________ truth.

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

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