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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. Painting allows for __________ vision, while photography does not require this sort of vision.
(a) Artisitic.
(b) Honest.
(c) Clear.
(d) Dissociative.

2. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.
(a) Exciting.
(b) Funny.
(c) Violent.
(d) Banal.

3. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?
(a) Carving.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Stage plays.

4. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.
(a) Easy.
(b) Unnecessary.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Unrelated.

5. At times in the photography movement, the __________ is considered important while at other times it is not.
(a) Placement.
(b) Subject.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Photographer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. _____________ were circulated condemning the film as a gross mischaracterization of China and the Chinese.

4. Photographs are clearly superior at recording information in comparison to __________.

5. The main question becomes whether photography is a high art or if it is merely a __________ reproduction by a machine.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In 1839, why was photography briefly attacked by those in society, according to the history lessons of this chapter?

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

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

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

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

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

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