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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. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.
(a) The world.
(b) True desire.
(c) The ether.
(d) God.

2. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Proper.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Sharp.

3. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) The underworld.
(b) Criminal activity.
(c) Children.
(d) Masturbation.

4. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Believe in it.
(b) Understand it.
(c) Expose it.
(d) Change it.

5. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Darker.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Lying.
(d) Common.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

2. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.

3. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

4. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.

5. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does surrealism look at wealth, which is the same way that photography seems to look at wealth?

4. What did Steichen thus do with his photographs in terms of creating importance with the subject of the picture?

5. Who were some of the groups of people who Diane Arbus took pictures of when she was creating portraits?

6. Why is surrealism not necessarily a universal art form, according to this particular chapter?

7. Why is it unusual to include writing about Walt Whitman in a book about photography?

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

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

10. How did Whitman want to see society as a whole, according to Sontag's writings in this chapter?

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