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

2. Paintings, however accurate or realistic, are not the object, but a ___________ of that object.
(a) Guess.
(b) Rendering.
(c) Design.
(d) Shadow.

3. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Just.
(c) Watery.
(d) Artistic.

4. What is the question plaguing most photographic theory of the 1970s, according to Sontag in this chapter?
(a) Does art matter?
(b) Is photography art?
(c) Does the subject exist?
(d) How is photography real?

5. Photographs in China are seen as another extension of _____________, which is why the film was misunderstood.
(a) Morality.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Cover-up.
(d) Military involvement.

Short Answer Questions

1. At times in the photography movement, the __________ is considered important while at other times it is not.

2. Photographs present the real, but it is a ________ real of acquisition via mechanical duplication, according to the chapter.

3. An audience cares about the subject being photographed, yet wants little to do with the _______________.

4. "Despite the efforts of contemporary photographers to exorcise the _____________, something lingers."

5. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What did the film Chung Kuo include that helped to present an accurate, though not flattering, picture of Chinese life?

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

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

7. What is one of the methods of falsifying photographs without changing the photograph itself?

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

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

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

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