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

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

3. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) Real.
(b) True.
(c) Possible.
(d) Official.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?

2. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

3. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

4. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do photographs of the same subject over the course of many years show about this person or this item?

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

6. What does Surrealism strive to do in society, much like the goals of photography in the world?

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

8. What was the goal of the Farm Service Administration photographic project in 1935 as described 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 are the ways in which an American photographer and a European photographer differ?

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