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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. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

2. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.

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

4. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?

5. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is photography a democratizing experience, according to Sontag in this particular chapter of the book?

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

3. How might the surrealist art movement be described, according to Sontag in this chapter?

4. What does Surrealism strive to do in society, much like the goals of photography in the world?

5. Why did photography come to be seen as a type of copulation with the material world?

6. How does photography encourage voyeurism in those who look at photographs?

7. How does photography make the photographer incapable of intervening in a situation?

8. What did Whitman think about those things which are often deemed trivial and those things considered to be real?

9. How did Whitman want to see society as a whole, according to Sontag's writings in this chapter?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Photographs can capture beauty in all things, even things which are not supposed to be conventionally beautiful.

Part 1: How do you define the idea of beauty? Why?

Part 2: Why do you think it's important for some to capture images of beauty?

Part 3: How do beautiful images affect those who look at them? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Whitman strove to see what was similar in all beings as opposed to what was unique about people, it seems.

Part 1: Do you think people are unique or are we all the same? Why or why not?

Part 2: How does the perception of the world change when you realize all people are the same?

Part 3: Why do you think it's important to see similarities among people? Or isn't it?

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