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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT true of the "Here Is New York" exhibit?
(a) Images were selected on a first-come, first-serve basis.
(b) The images were displayed uncaptioned.
(c) One image from each contributer was selected.
(d) The identity of the photographer was kept secret until after the image was purchased.

2. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?
(a) Mediated intimacy.
(b) Tele-intimacy.
(c) Comfortable distance.
(d) Diplomatic distance.

3. Sontag, confirming Walter Lippmann's assertion, argues that photography replaced which of the following media for representing the truth?
(a) Scientific studies.
(b) Artistic representations such as paintings or drawings.
(c) Eye-witness testimonies.
(d) Religious texts such as the Bible.

4. According to Sontag, _________ also influences the public's perception of war.
(a) Anti-war sentiment.
(b) Government policies.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"

2. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:

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

4. Sontag notes that at the time Virginia Woolf wrote "Three Guineas," war journalism was different than it is now. How was it different?

5. Krieg dem Kriege contains images captioned in which four languages?

(see the answer key)

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