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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 is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Lepers.
(d) Insane.

2. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.
(a) Important.
(b) Good.
(c) Big.
(d) Old.

3. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Individual.
(b) Image.
(c) Color.
(d) Word.

4. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Frame.
(b) Class.
(c) Art.
(d) Authors.

5. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Photography.
(b) Superficial distinctions.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Criticisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.

2. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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