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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag claims that images of suffering in Africa send a double message. Which of the following best represents that message?
(a) Violence is abhorrent in any case; therefore, we must interfene to stop such atrocities.
(b) The suffering depicted in the photographs was inhumane and should be prevented; however, it is to be expected of a place like Africa.
(c) Suffering like this only happens in backward places like Africa; thus, America and other developed nations are clearly superior.
(d) Places like Africa always face horrors like this; therefore, intervention is a waste of resources.

2. According to Sontag, photographs of atrocities are best received if they are:
(a) Well-lit and high-contrast.
(b) Close-ups of compelling scenes.
(c) Images of familiar places or people.
(d) So artistically simple as to seem uncomposed.

3. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?
(a) A fund benefitting the fire departments that acted to save the victims.
(b) A fund benefitting the arts and encouraging photography of New York.
(c) A fund benefitting the spouses of those who died.
(d) A fund benefitting children who lost parents in the attack.

4. Sontag notes that post-colonial Africa is most commonly known to the American public based on a series of which of the following groups of images?
(a) Images of post-war development and national improvement.
(b) Still images of freedom fighters, revolutionary independence movements, and guerrilla insurgencies.
(c) Images of American aid groups, support-a-child network assistants, and refugee camps.
(d) Photographs of the famine fields of Biafra, the Rwandan genocide, and the AIDS epidemic.

5. Restrictions on media coverage of the British campaign in the Falklands was notable for which of the following reasons?
(a) They were stricter than any censorship since the Crimean War.
(b) They opened the event to full-scale television coverage.
(c) They prohibited foreign journalists from covering the story.
(d) They allowed only government-sponsored journalists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag claims that "good taste" is always _________ when invoked by institutions.

2. Which of the following photographers exhibited photographs of Sarajevo in 1994?

3. Sontag argues that which of the following effects keeps the television viewer's attention "light", "mobile" and fairly "indifferent" to the images on the screen?

4. Although the camera captures the scene in front of it, Sontag suggests that the ______ may manipulate the image.

5. Sontag, confirming Walter Lippmann's assertion, argues that photography replaced which of the following media for representing the truth?

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