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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 best describes the "CNN effect" as discussed by Sontag?
(a) Extensive media coverage directly affected local politics.
(b) Distorted media coverage misleads the public.
(c) Media coverage lead to the sentiment that something must be done.
(d) Outrageous media coverage lead to a backlash against the media.

2. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?
(a) The Spanish Civil War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Boer War.
(d) World War II.

3. Sontag discusses "Here Is New York," a photography exhibit depicting September 11th. Whom did the organizers ask to contribute photographs?
(a) Anyone who captured an image of the tragedy.
(b) Amateurs only.
(c) Photojournalists only.
(d) Professional artists only.

4. Sontag cites one of her earlier books published in 1977. Which of the following is it?
(a) "On Photography."
(b) "Reborn."
(c) "Against Interpretation."
(d) "Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?

2. Which of the following was NOT true of the "Here Is New York" exhibit?

3. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?

4. Sontag claims that images of suffering in Africa send a double message. Which of the following best represents that message?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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