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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. Another method of falsifying photographs is to falsely __________ them, according to Sontag's findings.
(a) Frame.
(b) Caption.
(c) Color.
(d) Develop.

2. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Burning.
(b) Retouching.
(c) Tampering.
(d) Altering.

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

4. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.
(a) Unrelated.
(b) Unnecessary.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Easy.

5. What is NOT one of the things that the Chinese expect from photography, which can cause a disconnect?
(a) Posed scenes.
(b) Logical transitions.
(c) Fast camera motion.
(d) Healthy topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.

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

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

4. 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?

5. _____________ were circulated condemning the film as a gross mischaracterization of China and the Chinese.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does a photographic portrait not need to do, instead it can mingle documentation with artistic rendering?

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

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

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

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

7. How are photographs presented as art in the modern society, according to this chapter of the book?

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. 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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