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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. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Important.
(b) Dramatic.
(c) Useful.
(d) Dark.

2. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Chemical engineer.
(b) President.
(c) Novelist.
(d) Poet.

3. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?
(a) African.
(b) South American.
(c) European.
(d) American.

4. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Scale.
(b) Value.
(c) Reality.
(d) Color.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.

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

4. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.

5. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does photography encourage voyeurism in those who look at photographs?

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