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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was generally thought that public awareness was largely guided by which of the following?
(a) Book industry.
(b) Government propaganda.
(c) Educational programming.
(d) Media coverage.

2. 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) Suffering like this only happens in backward places like Africa; thus, America and other developed nations are clearly superior.
(c) The suffering depicted in the photographs was inhumane and should be prevented; however, it is to be expected of a place like Africa.
(d) Places like Africa always face horrors like this; therefore, intervention is a waste of resources.

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

4. The footage from a 1898 charge of Colonel Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was replaced with film of a staged charge later for which of the following reasons?
(a) The photographer lost the film reel.
(b) The lighting on the day of the event was insufficient.
(c) Colonel Roosevelt was unsatisfied with the footage.
(d) The footage of the actual event was not dramatic enough.

5. Sontag argues that a photograph by which of these photographers triggered mass outcry against the Vietnam War?
(a) Robert Capa.
(b) Ernst Friedrich.
(c) Henri Cartier-Bresson.
(d) Larry Burroughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?

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

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. Sontag calls for the reader's sympathy for the wounded Taliban soldier whose pain graced the cover of "The New York Times" by suggesting which of the following?

5. Which of the following terms does Sontag define as a commonly used term for those whose profession like journalists takes them into war zones?

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