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

2. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Change it.
(b) Understand it.
(c) Expose it.
(d) Believe in it.

3. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) True ego.
(b) Power trip.
(c) Death trip.
(d) Wild ride.

4. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Individual.
(b) Image.
(c) Word.
(d) Color.

5. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.
(a) Animalistic.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Rich.
(d) Bizarre.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

2. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

3. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?

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

5. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does surrealism look at wealth, which is the same way that photography seems to look at wealth?

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

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

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

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

6. What do photographs of the same subject over the course of many years show about this person or this item?

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

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

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

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

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