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

2. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) All humans.
(b) Everything.
(c) The world's darkness.
(d) Nothing.

3. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.
(a) Fine.
(b) Universal.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Understanding.

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

5. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Social abjection.
(b) Paper.
(c) People.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

3. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

4. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

5. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do photographs do to the scale of an object within the photograph and in real life, according to Sontag?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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