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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs in China are seen as another extension of _____________, which is why the film was misunderstood.
(a) Honesty.
(b) Cover-up.
(c) Military involvement.
(d) Morality.

2. Who invited Antonioni to make a film about the Chinese life and its culture?
(a) United States government.
(b) No one.
(c) Italian government.
(d) Chinese government.

3. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.
(a) Subjects.
(b) Audiences.
(c) Books.
(d) Drama.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. Although one cannot possess all of _____________, one can possess images.
(a) Truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) Honesty.
(d) The family.

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

11. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Lighting.
(c) Colors.
(d) Original beauty.

12. 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) Young art.
(b) High art.
(c) Travesty.
(d) Rich art.

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

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

15. What kind of film did Antonioni make about the Chinese culture and family life?
(a) Drama.
(b) Documentary.
(c) Action.
(d) Comedy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.

3. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?

4. Collecting photographs is easy. What is NOT one of the reasons for the ease of collecting photographs, according to this chapter?

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

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