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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. The Chinese government denounced Antonioni's film as anti-Chinese and anti-___________.
(a) Pornography.
(b) Communist.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Artistic.

2. Collecting photographs is easy. What is NOT one of the reasons for the ease of collecting photographs, according to this chapter?
(a) They can be stored on a computer.
(b) They are small.
(c) They are easily transportable.
(d) They are durable.

3. The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag.
(a) Art.
(b) Literature.
(c) Expansion.
(d) Society.

4. _____________ is easy, rapid, and can be performed by just about anyone, according to Sontag.
(a) Painting.
(b) Carving.
(c) Photography.
(d) Sculpting.

5. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.
(a) Books.
(b) Drama.
(c) Subjects.
(d) Audiences.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Another method of falsifying photographs is to falsely __________ them, according to Sontag's findings.

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

4. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.

5. In China, photography is subsumed by the state _______________ apparatus, according to the book's findings.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do some theories speculate that photography allows the artist to capture when they are taking the photograph?

8. How are vapid or banal objects made beautiful when they are photographed, according to this chapter?

9. What do some primitive tribes think about the idea of taking pictures of other people, 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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