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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag claims that shock used for rhetorical purposes can become _________.
(a) Damaging.
(b) New.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Familiar.

2. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?
(a) The atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.
(b) The casualties of Bunker Hill.
(c) The dead and dying of the Korean War.
(d) The mass deaths during the Spanish Civil War.

3. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?
(a) He generalized different social and political situations under the anonymous umbrella of suffering.
(b) He profited greatly from the exhibition of the photographs while the subjects received nothing.
(c) He reprinted images of refugees without their consent, display a disregard for their rights.
(d) He staged many of the photographs to create more dramatic depictions of human agony.

4. Sontag argues that the most extensive kind of censorship is which of the following?
(a) The self-censorship of broadcast companies.
(b) Military censorship.
(c) Government censorship.
(d) The censorship implied by public sensibility.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag notes that post-colonial Africa is most commonly known to the American public based on a series of which of the following groups of images?

2. Sontag argues that creating lasting interest in war image requires which of the following?

3. According to Sontag, _________ also influences the public's perception of war.

4. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?

5. 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?

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