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

2. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.
(a) Stories.
(b) Arguments.
(c) Mementos.
(d) Artifacts.

3. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Roy Emerson Stryker.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

4. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.
(a) Justice.
(b) Truth.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

2. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.

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

4. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What has photography established, according to Sontag in this chapter in relation to how objects are seen?

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

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

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

9. What are the two groups into which photographers can be categorized, according to the text in this chapter?

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

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