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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. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Moralists.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Students.

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Music.
(c) Real.
(d) Horror.

3. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Naughtiness.
(b) Fetishism.
(c) Enjoyment.
(d) Permission.

4. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Service Association.
(b) Farm Security Administration.
(c) Farm Service Administration.
(d) Farm Settler Administration.

5. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Dark corners.
(c) Rich.
(d) Freaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?

2. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

4. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

5. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is photography a democratizing experience, according to Sontag in this particular chapter of the book?

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

3. Why does Sontag believe that tourists always use cameras during their trips to new and exciting places?

4. What is the significance of the title of this particular chapter of this Susan Sontag book?

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

6. How was "Family of Man" an opposite representation of what Whitman was trying to saw about humanity?

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

8. What was the goal of the Farm Service Administration photographic project in 1935 as described in this chapter?

9. What do photographs do to the scale of an object within the photograph and in real life, according to Sontag?

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

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