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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. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Honest.
(c) Understood.
(d) Beautiful.

2. This chapter says that society seems to prefer ________ to things, and continues to repeat this idea throughout the text.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Photographers.
(c) Images.
(d) Honesty.

3. An audience cares about the subject being photographed, yet wants little to do with the _______________.
(a) Gallery.
(b) Photographer.
(c) Price.
(d) Frame.

4. A photograph is reliable as it is contrived through a __________, hence putatively reliable, process.
(a) Solid.
(b) Mechanical.
(c) Effective.
(d) Technological.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs cannot ___________ of something and are therefore obviously reproductive or mimetic.

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

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

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

5. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the progression of photography in relation to its artistic status, according to this chapter?

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

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

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

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

6. What do photographs do to reality, according to this final chapter of the book as written by Sontag?

7. What kinds of subjects does it seem that painting and photography seem to favor, according to the argument in this chapter?

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

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

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

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