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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. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Steichen.
(c) Arbus.
(d) Stieglitz.

2. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Animals.
(b) Books.
(c) Society.
(d) Class.

3. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Identity.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Honor.
(d) Innovation.

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

5. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.
(a) Still.
(b) Normal.
(c) Vapid.
(d) Moving.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

2. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.

3. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

4. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?

5. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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