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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

2. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

3. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

4. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?

5. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

Short Essay Questions

1. Are people with children more or less likely to own a camera, according to Sontag's own findings?

2. What are the two groups into which photographers can be categorized, according to the text in this chapter?

3. What was Whitman's cultural and social influence, coined Whitmanesque, according to the text?

4. What do photographs of the same subject over the course of many years show about this person or this item?

5. How does surrealism look at wealth, which is the same way that photography seems to look at wealth?

6. What does Susan Sontag suggest that photography has made society do in relation to reality?

7. Why is it unusual to include writing about Walt Whitman in a book about photography?

8. What do photographs do to the scale of an object within the photograph and in real life, according to Sontag?

9. What has photography established, according to Sontag in this chapter in relation to how objects are seen?

10. What is the significance of the title of this particular chapter of this Susan Sontag book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often, photographs are offered as evidence that something occurred at a certain time.

Part 1: Why do you think photographs are thought to be so definitive?

Part 2: How do you think photographs should be used in everyday life?

Part 3: Do you think something is real when you have a picture of it? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sontag makes the statement that in a person being photographed in a sexual way, it's almost as if it's a violation or a rape.

Part 1: Why do you think a photograph might be like a rape?

Part 2: What happens if a person consents to having their picture taken? Is that still a 'rape' of sorts? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you feel violated when someone takes a picture of you? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

According to Sontag, painting favors beautiful items while photography favors less than attractive objects.

Part 1: Why do you think painting is used for beautiful items?

Part 2: Do you think painting can only be used for beautiful things? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think that photography focuses only on those things which are less attractive? Why or why not?

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