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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".
(a) Include.
(b) Exclude.
(c) Alter.
(d) Highlight.

2. Many of the scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" were based on works by which famous World War I photographer?
(a) Ernst Friedrich.
(b) Roger Fenton.
(c) Robert Capa.
(d) Gilles Peress.

3. In transforming an event or person into something that can be owned, photographs:
(a) Objectify.
(b) Degrade.
(c) Elevate.
(d) Commoditize.

4. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Spanish Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The American Civil War.

5. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?
(a) Paintings and photographs.
(b) Etchings and drawings.
(c) Drawings and paintings.
(d) Photographs and etchings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag claims that American journalists have always followed one tacit prohibition. What have American journalists always avoided?

2. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?

3. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?

4. 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?

5. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?

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