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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Photography is published in books with _______ of white space and precise layouts, making it seem artistic.
(a) Backgrounds.
(b) Spaces.
(c) Frames.
(d) Images.

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

4. Many people fear being photographed because they fear the camera's ___________ of their looks.
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Capturing.
(c) Destroying.
(d) Disapproval.

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

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

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

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

9. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Burning.
(b) Retouching.
(c) Altering.
(d) Tampering.

10. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.
(a) Understood.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Honest.
(d) Beautiful.

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

12. Photographs make ____________ safe and concrete, according to Sontag. Some prefer photographs to reality.
(a) Reality.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Traveling.

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

14. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Unrelated.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Easy.

15. Sontag says that some artists ___________ for the express purpose of having it photographed.
(a) Create their work.
(b) Go back to school.
(c) Use cameras.
(d) Sculpt in bronze and plaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. The collection of photographs is carried to the extreme in ____________, where these images are horded.

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

3. In 1839, photography was briefly attacked as something ___________ and disgraceful, according to the book.

4. The reaction to the film in China is illustrative of an essential ____________ difference in the way that photography is understood.

5. And others believe that all proficient photographers must metaphysically ________ the object which they are photographing.

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