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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. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.
(a) Rich.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Younger.
(d) Democratizing.

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

3. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Scale.
(b) Value.
(c) Color.
(d) Reality.

4. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Truth.
(b) Identity.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Community.

5. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Mothers.
(b) Children.
(c) Pets.
(d) Cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.

2. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

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

4. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

5. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. On what other artistic areas does photography impose standards according to Sontag in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

7. What was Whitman's cultural and social influence, coined Whitmanesque, according to the text?

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

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

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

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