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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) Revision.
(b) Technological advances.
(c) Exposure.
(d) Framing.

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

3. 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.

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

5. This chapter says that society seems to prefer ________ to things, and continues to repeat this idea throughout the text.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Photographers.
(d) Images.

6. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?
(a) Stage plays.
(b) Carving.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpting.

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

8. Photographs cannot ___________ of something and are therefore obviously reproductive or mimetic.
(a) Not be.
(b) Ignore the rules.
(c) Simply be.
(d) Understand the truth.

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

10. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Understand.
(b) Document.
(c) Clean up.
(d) Manufacture.

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

12. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.
(a) Funny.
(b) Violent.
(c) Banal.
(d) Exciting.

13. Photographs are also displayed in ___________ as paintings are for others to see and to experience.
(a) Schools.
(b) Photo albums.
(c) Galleries.
(d) Banks.

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

15. 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) Painting.
(c) Photography.
(d) Sculpting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Another method of falsifying photographs is to falsely __________ them, according to Sontag's findings.

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

3. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?

4. Although one cannot possess all of _____________, one can possess images.

5. The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag.

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