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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. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1818.

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

3. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.
(a) Peace.
(b) Joy.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Beauty.

4. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) Everything.
(b) All humans.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The world's darkness.

5. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.
(a) Universal.
(b) Fine.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

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

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

4. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

5. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Whitman think about those things which are often deemed trivial and those things considered to be real?

3. How might the surrealist art movement be described, according to Sontag in this chapter?

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

5. Why did photography come to be seen as a type of copulation with the material world?

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

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

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

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

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

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