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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?
(a) Images depicting intimate climaxes.
(b) Images depicting gory battle scenes.
(c) Images depicting spontaneous events.
(d) Images depicting everyday life.

3. Although the camera captures the scene in front of it, Sontag suggests that the ______ may manipulate the image.
(a) Press.
(b) Editor.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Media.

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

5. "Without Sanctuary" was a book of photographs taken of which of the following atrocities?
(a) Lynchings of black Americans in the 1930s.
(b) The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
(c) Japanese internment in the U.S.
(d) The Rwanda atrocities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (The Disasters of War) was a series of etchings published in 1863. Which of the following events does this series depict?

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

3. Many of the scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" were based on works by which famous World War I photographer?

4. Using the example of Ground Zero, Sontag argues that photographs have the power to do which of the following to their subject?

5. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?

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