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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Evidence.
(b) Diction.
(c) Measurement.
(d) Power.

2. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) Wild ride.
(b) Death trip.
(c) Power trip.
(d) True ego.

3. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Committment.
(c) Closing their eyes.
(d) Intervention.

4. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Realist.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Roptist.
(d) Nihilist.

5. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Humor.
(b) Power.
(c) Veracity.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.

2. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.

3. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.

4. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

5. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

Short Essay Questions

1. How might the surrealist art movement be described, according to Sontag in this chapter?

2. What did the Farm Service Administration effectively show about the power of photography?

3. What did Whitman think about those things which are often deemed trivial and those things considered to be real?

4. What are the ways in which an American photographer and a European photographer differ?

5. How does photography encourage voyeurism in those who look at photographs?

6. What are the two groups into which photographers can be categorized, according to the text in this chapter?

7. Are people with children more or less likely to own a camera, according to Sontag's own findings?

8. What kind of art does Sontag believe photography has become, according to the text in this chapter?

9. What did Edward Steichen photograph in order to show that objects aren't always as simple as they appear?

10. What does Susan Sontag suggest that photography has made society do in relation to reality?

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