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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag discusses another common belief regarding media coverage of an event, and suggested that it may seem to contradict the first common belief she addresses. What is this second idea?
(a) The media sensationalizes stories of atrocity.
(b) Overexposure to images in the media makes people callous.
(c) Repeated images in the media exhaust our ability to prevent new atrocities.
(d) Limited exposure diminishes the impact the images have on an audience.

2. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?
(a) Most people believe that atrocities like that do not happen in Europe.
(b) The violence was more extreme than other conflicts of the era.
(c) Government propaganda incited great public interest.
(d) The media hyped the conflicts by airing footage during each broadcast.

3. 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?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1912.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sontag suggests that the camera always "kept company with _________".

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

4. Sontag argues that there are two extreme positions on a spectrum of war experience which create the same idea that images of war are no longer emotionally-jarring for an audience? Which two positions are they?

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

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