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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. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.
(a) Concord.
(b) Accord.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Truth.

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Darkened.
(b) Silly.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Untrained.

3. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.
(a) Inhibitions.
(b) Sensitivities.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Trust.

4. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Trivial.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Forest.

5. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Statues.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Scarecrows.
(d) Objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?

2. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

3. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

4. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

5. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Are people with children more or less likely to own a camera, according to Sontag's own findings?

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