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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) Suffering like this only happens in backward places like Africa; thus, America and other developed nations are clearly superior.
(b) Places like Africa always face horrors like this; therefore, intervention is a waste of resources.
(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) Violence is abhorrent in any case; therefore, we must interfene to stop such atrocities.

2. 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) Limited exposure diminishes the impact the images have on an audience.
(b) Overexposure to images in the media makes people callous.
(c) Repeated images in the media exhaust our ability to prevent new atrocities.
(d) The media sensationalizes stories of atrocity.

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

4. Which of the following photographers exhibited photographs of Sarajevo in 1994?
(a) Jeff Wall.
(b) Larisa Shepitko.
(c) Paul Lowe.
(d) Frederick Wiseman.

5. Who took the infamous image of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong suspect in the street?
(a) Roger Capa.
(b) Timothy O'Sullivan.
(c) Eddie Adams.
(d) Roger Fenton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?

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

3. Discussing the common person's ability to feel sympathy, Sontag argues which of the following?

4. Which of the following poets expressed concerns about the effect of national-scale events on human sensibility in 1800?

5. Sontag argues that many people thought that which of the following makes war seem "real"?

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