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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following magazines was NOT devoted entirely to photography?
(a) Vu.
(b) Life.
(c) Picture Post.
(d) National Geographic.

3. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?
(a) The photographer arranged the execution in advance.
(b) The shooting would not have occurred in the absence of journalists to record it.
(c) General Loan was unaware of the cameras at the time of the execution.
(d) The presence of journalists was an invasion of the executed man's privacy.

4. At the end of World War II, a group of journalists formed Magnum Photo Agency. Which of the following photographers was not among them?
(a) Henri Cartier-Bresson.
(b) Ernst Friedrich.
(c) Robert Capa.
(d) David Seymour.

5. According to Sontag, war journalism first developed during which of the following two wars?
(a) The Crimean War and the American Civil War.
(b) The American Revolution and the American Civil War.
(c) World War II and the Vietnam War.
(d) World War I and World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. The footage from a 1898 charge of Colonel Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was replaced with film of a staged charge later for which of the following reasons?

2. Sontag calls for the reader's sympathy for the wounded Taliban soldier whose pain graced the cover of "The New York Times" by suggesting which of the following?

3. Photographic representations of the Vietnam War was essential to promoting:

4. _______ is a modern development in camera use.

5. Who took the infamous image of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong suspect in the street?

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