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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?
(a) A dying Republican soldier and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(b) A dying Republican soldier and a mother holding her child while looking at the sky.
(c) A mother holding her child while looking at the sky and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(d) The bombing of Guernica and Vitalis men's hair cream.

2. The West had a long tradition of viewing war as which of the following?
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Honorable.
(c) Necessary.
(d) Atrocity.

3. In its early days, photography was thought to:
(a) Diminish the emotional impact of an event.
(b) Depict a single, biased point of view.
(c) Represent objective truth.
(d) Glorify scenes of suffering.

4. Sontag claims that "good taste" is always _________ when invoked by institutions.
(a) A measure to protect the public.
(b) A decision made in the interest of freedom.
(c) A way to maintain appearances.
(d) A repressive standard.

5. Sontag corrects her earlier argument by claiming that which of the following is eroded by modern media saturation?
(a) Sense of reality.
(b) Human empathy.
(c) Human decency.
(d) Sense of urgency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag argues that creating lasting interest in war image requires which of the following?

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

3. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?

4. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?

5. Sontag cites one of her earlier books published in 1977. Which of the following is it?

(see the answer key)

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