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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. Photographs present the real, but it is a ________ real of acquisition via mechanical duplication, according to the chapter.
(a) Sham.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Weak.
(d) Darker.

2. Who was rendered with Antonioni's typical flair and technique, featuring long shots, close-ups, jarring juxtaposition, and a focus on the ordinary?
(a) Ching Kon.
(b) Chung Koan.
(c) Chang Kon.
(d) Chung Kuo.

3. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.
(a) Original beauty.
(b) Colors.
(c) Lighting.
(d) Truth.

4. The overall discussion in this chapter is that on some level, in photography, images are or supersede __________.
(a) Darkness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reality.
(d) God.

5. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.
(a) Memory.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Touches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yet, photographs ________ what we often see more, according to the chapter.

2. Photography freed ____________ from the reproductive arts, according to Sontag's writing in this book.

3. By __________, photography became an acceptable part of modern day life, according to the book.

4. Some cultures feel that the image is in fact part of the _________, according to this chapter of the book.

5. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Sontag makes a bold assertion in regards to photography and the work of some artists. What does she assert?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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