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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. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?
(a) Plato's Republic.
(b) Plato's Cave.
(c) The Republic of Plato.
(d) The Loyalty of Plato.

2. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.
(a) Abject.
(b) Extreme.
(c) True.
(d) Duly earned.

3. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Denial.
(c) Permission.
(d) Joy.

4. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.
(a) Hand-holding.
(b) Heterogeneous.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Homogeneous.

5. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.
(a) Looking at.
(b) Worship.
(c) Avoidance.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

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

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

4. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

5. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How are photographs usually held as definitive evidence in the world, according to Sontag?

8. How does photography make the photographer incapable of intervening in a situation?

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

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

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