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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fenton received directions from the War Office to do which of the following?
(a) Generate propaganda for Britain.
(b) Graphically depict the horrors of war.
(c) Avoid photographing the ill, wounded, dying and dead.
(d) Glorify war through patriotic images.

2. _______ is a modern development in camera use.
(a) Simplifying.
(b) Complicating.
(c) Uglifying.
(d) Beautifying.

3. In interpreting photographs, Sontag claims that everyone approaches the image as which of the following?
(a) An idealist.
(b) A realist.
(c) A literalist.
(d) A critic.

4. Sontag claims that Jacques Callot's 1633 painting, "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War" was unprecedented for which of the following reasons?
(a) The painting glorified the horrors of war.
(b) The painting was the first anti-war protest work.
(c) The painting portrayed shocking violence and bloodshed.
(d) The painting emphasized the savagery of the conquering army.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Sontag, confirming Walter Lippmann's assertion, argues that photography replaced which of the following media for representing the truth?

5. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:

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