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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. As a new art, photography constantly undergoes constant __________ as it must always be innovative.
(a) Technological advances.
(b) Framing.
(c) Revision.
(d) Exposure.

2. Painting is usually done of ________ subjects, while photography uses different subjects in its frames.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Animal.

3. Yet, photographs ________ what we often see more, according to the chapter.
(a) "Understand."
(b) "Believe."
(c) "Listen to."
(d) "See."

4. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.
(a) Audiences.
(b) Books.
(c) Drama.
(d) Subjects.

5. Although one cannot possess all of _____________, one can possess images.
(a) Reality.
(b) The family.
(c) Truth.
(d) Honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.

2. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?

3. Many people fear being photographed because they fear the camera's ___________ of their looks.

4. The very act of ____________ something new casts it as something new and beautiful.

5. Photographs make ____________ safe and concrete, according to Sontag. Some prefer photographs to reality.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a photographic portrait not need to do, instead it can mingle documentation with artistic rendering?

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

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

4. Why is it so simple for people in society to collect photographs, according to the text in this chapter?

5. What is the struggle that's described in relation to paintings versus taking photographs, according to Sontag?

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

7. What does this chapter seem to believe the current definition of modern society is in relation to images and things?

8. What do cameras often reveal in the subject of the picture or in the object being photographed?

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

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

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