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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. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.
(a) Family.
(b) Album.
(c) Landscape.
(d) Portrait.

2. Photographs cannot ___________ of something and are therefore obviously reproductive or mimetic.
(a) Understand the truth.
(b) Ignore the rules.
(c) Not be.
(d) Simply be.

3. Cartier-Bresson, in the introduction of his book, justified his unwillingness to use _________ by citing technical limitations.
(a) Film.
(b) Tripods.
(c) Digital cameras.
(d) Color.

4. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.
(a) Dense.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Innocent.
(d) Happy.

5. Some cultures feel that the image is in fact part of the _________, according to this chapter of the book.
(a) Past.
(b) Future.
(c) Real.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although one cannot possess all of _____________, one can possess images.

2. In China, photography is subsumed by the state _______________ apparatus, according to the book's findings.

3. Who invited Antonioni to make a film about the Chinese life and its culture?

4. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.

5. The reaction to the film in China is illustrative of an essential ____________ difference in the way that photography is understood.

Short Essay Questions

1. What discussion does false photography illuminate in regards to the essential division in photography?

2. In 1839, why was photography briefly attacked by those in society, according to the history lessons of this chapter?

3. What is difficult, if not impossible to do when it comes to looking at photographs, as opposed to looking at paintings?

4. How are photographs presented as art in the modern society, according to this chapter of the book?

5. What do some philosophers - namely Balzac - have to say about the idea or the act of taking photographs?

6. What does photography have the power to do to truly beautiful things, according to this chapter?

7. Why are photographs considered to be a superior form of recording information, even more so than writing?

8. In order to avoid the over-exposure of beautiful things, what becomes necessary in relation to beauty?

9. What does Sontag see as the central tension in photography, according to the discussion in this chapter?

10. What do some theories speculate that photography allows the artist to capture when they are taking the photograph?

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