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

2. Some theorize that the practice of photography allows the disclosure of a ___________ truth.
(a) Hidden.
(b) Naked.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Blanketed.

3. "Despite the efforts of contemporary photographers to exorcise the _____________, something lingers."
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Demons.
(c) Specter of art.
(d) Abstract.

4. Others believe that photography is purely _________ and entirely devoid of interpretation in a subjective sense.
(a) Objective.
(b) Pixels.
(c) Dull.
(d) Evil.

5. Who invited Antonioni to make a film about the Chinese life and its culture?
(a) United States government.
(b) Italian government.
(c) No one.
(d) Chinese government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag seems stereotype inscrutable Chinese values, smacking of the anti-Chinese ____________ in her time.

2. Photographs in China are seen as another extension of _____________, which is why the film was misunderstood.

3. Most continue to claim that photography is entirely _________, according to the research of Sontag.

4. Photographs are also displayed in ___________ as paintings are for others to see and to experience.

5. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did photography enjoy a sudden burst in popularity, according to the text in this chapter?

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

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

8. What does modern photography seem to say about this subject of the photograph and its importance?

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

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

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