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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. What kind of film did Antonioni make about the Chinese culture and family life?
(a) Action.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Documentary.
(d) Drama.

2. Even though photographs are generally consistent, _________ tastes in photography exist and change over time.
(a) Public.
(b) Hotel.
(c) Critic.
(d) Newspaper.

3. Photography enjoyed a boost when the public learned that photographs could be ______________.
(a) Digitized.
(b) Kept forever.
(c) Destroyed.
(d) Altered.

4. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?
(a) High art.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Truth telling.
(d) Assembly line.

5. Photographs are presented as sophisticated ____________, though they are made with little more than a click of a button.
(a) Renditions.
(b) Masterpieces.
(c) Frames.
(d) Sculptures.

Short Answer Questions

1. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.

2. Some champion total self ____________ for the photographer in order to capture subjects in the way that makes sense for an audience.

3. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.

4. Sontag says that some artists ___________ for the express purpose of having it photographed.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did photography enjoy a sudden burst in popularity, according to the text in this chapter?

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

3. What do most claim about the intentions of photography, according to the long essays in this chapter?

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

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

6. What do some people think a photographer needs to 'become' in order to be proficient in his or her work?

7. Why is a photograph of an object a more reliable way of looking at an object, according to the text in this chapter?

8. What do some primitive tribes think about the idea of taking pictures of other people, according to this chapter?

9. How are vapid or banal objects made beautiful when they are photographed, according to this chapter?

10. What does the final chapter have to present about the idea of images in relation to reality, something which may not be fully supported by the text?

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