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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.
(b) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.
(c) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.
(d) Maxims, proverbs and songs.

2. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?
(a) More than one million.
(b) Less five hundred.
(c) More than one thousand.
(d) Less than one hundred.

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

4. Sebastiao Salgado's work called "Migrations: Humanity in Transition" was often criticized as being:
(a) "Exploitative."
(b) "Cinematic."
(c) "Generalizing."
(d) "Melodramatic."

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

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. _______ is a modern development in camera use.

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

4. According to Sontag, photographs of atrocities are best received if they are:

5. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".

(see the answer key)

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