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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Restrictions on media coverage of the British campaign in the Falklands was notable for which of the following reasons?
(a) They prohibited foreign journalists from covering the story.
(b) They allowed only government-sponsored journalists.
(c) They opened the event to full-scale television coverage.
(d) They were stricter than any censorship since the Crimean War.

2. 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."

3. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?
(a) A fund benefitting the fire departments that acted to save the victims.
(b) A fund benefitting the spouses of those who died.
(c) A fund benefitting children who lost parents in the attack.
(d) A fund benefitting the arts and encouraging photography of New York.

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

5. Discussing the common person's ability to feel sympathy, Sontag argues which of the following?
(a) People will naturally feel empathy, but will quickly distance themselves because society has programmed them to avoid involvement.
(b) People will instinctually distance themselves from suffering.
(c) People will automatically feel sympathy for victims of atrocity.
(d) People will do anything to keep from being moved by what they see.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?

2. 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?

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

4. A heated debate emerged when a weekly paper in Boston ran a video of which American journalist's execution in Pakistan?

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

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