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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 are presented as sophisticated ____________, though they are made with little more than a click of a button.
(a) Masterpieces.
(b) Sculptures.
(c) Renditions.
(d) Frames.

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

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

4. The reaction to the film in China is illustrative of an essential ____________ difference in the way that photography is understood.
(a) Societal.
(b) Military.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Gender.

5. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.
(a) Worthless.
(b) Truths.
(c) Fads.
(d) Cutting edge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many people fear being photographed because they fear the camera's ___________ of their looks.

2. Sontag says that some artists ___________ for the express purpose of having it photographed.

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

4. "_______- proud hosts may well pull out photographs of the place to show visitors how really splendid it is."

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Chinese tastes prefer to see in their films, which made the Italian director a poor choice for the documentary on Chinese life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do most claim about the intentions of photography, according to the long essays in this chapter?

9. Why is a photograph of an object a more reliable way of looking at an object, according to the text in this chapter?

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

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