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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.
(a) Alignment.
(b) Approach.
(c) Technique.
(d) Structure.

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

3. At times in the photography movement, the __________ is considered important while at other times it is not.
(a) Placement.
(b) Subject.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Sunshine.

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

5. What is the question plaguing most photographic theory of the 1970s, according to Sontag in this chapter?
(a) Is photography art?
(b) Does the subject exist?
(c) How is photography real?
(d) Does art matter?

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

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

8. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.
(a) Subjects.
(b) Values.
(c) Intentions.
(d) Outcomes.

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

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

11. 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 Koan.
(c) Chung Kuo.
(d) Chang Kon.

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

13. Some theorize that the practice of photography allows the disclosure of a ___________ truth.
(a) Hidden.
(b) Naked.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Blanketed.

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

15. "For the modernist promotion of naive art always contains a _______; that one continue to honor its hidden claim to sophistication."
(a) Spade.
(b) Joker.
(c) Diamond.
(d) Ace.

Short Answer Questions

1. This chapter says that society seems to prefer ________ to things, and continues to repeat this idea throughout the text.

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

3. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.

4. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

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

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