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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. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Truth.
(b) Identity.
(c) Community.
(d) Understanding.

2. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.
(a) Artifice.
(b) Judgemental.
(c) Biased.
(d) Truthful.

3. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) High income.
(b) Feral.
(c) Freak.
(d) Low income.

4. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Power.
(c) Evidence.
(d) Diction.

5. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Picarism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Truthism.
(d) Realism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

2. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.

3. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

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

5. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is surrealism not necessarily a universal art form, according to this particular chapter?

5. How was "Family of Man" an opposite representation of what Whitman was trying to saw about humanity?

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

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

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

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

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

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