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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. What is the question plaguing most photographic theory of the 1970s, according to Sontag in this chapter?
(a) How is photography real?
(b) Does art matter?
(c) Does the subject exist?
(d) Is photography art?

2. The real problem with bringing ________ photographs into mainstream is a procedure which contradicts the nature of most photographs.
(a) Terrific.
(b) Impressionistic.
(c) Bad.
(d) Functional.

3. Yet, photographs ________ what we often see more, according to the chapter.
(a) "Listen to."
(b) "Understand."
(c) "Believe."
(d) "See."

4. Most - nearly all - __________ images are photographs, according to Sontag's findings.
(a) Great.
(b) Authoritative.
(c) Effective.
(d) Surrealistic.

5. In China, photography is subsumed by the state _______________ apparatus, according to the book's findings.
(a) Government.
(b) Moral.
(c) Christian.
(d) Propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Painting is usually done of ________ subjects, while photography uses different subjects in its frames.

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

3. What art has had to struggle to become a high art, though others have not had to work as hard to get to that title?

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

5. At times in the photography movement, the __________ is considered important while at other times it is not.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What do photographs do to reality, according to this final chapter of the book as written by Sontag?

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

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

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