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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. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.
(a) Technique.
(b) Approach.
(c) Alignment.
(d) Structure.

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

3. "_______- proud hosts may well pull out photographs of the place to show visitors how really splendid it is."
(a) Wealth.
(b) Baby.
(c) School.
(d) Family.

4. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Watery.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Just.
(d) Artistic.

5. Some cultures feel that the image is in fact part of the _________, according to this chapter of the book.
(a) Past.
(b) Real.
(c) Future.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Many tribes view the act of taking pictures of something or of someone as ______________.

3. Others believe that photography is purely _________ and entirely devoid of interpretation in a subjective sense.

4. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the final chapter have to present about the idea of images in relation to reality, something which may not be fully supported by the text?

9. In order to avoid the over-exposure of beautiful things, what becomes necessary in relation to beauty?

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

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