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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which antiwar book which shows images from German military archives does Sontag reference?
(a) The Face of War.
(b) Three Guinneas.
(c) J'accuse.
(d) Krieg dem Kriege!

2. 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) Robert Capa.
(b) David Seymour.
(c) Henri Cartier-Bresson.
(d) Ernst Friedrich.

3. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:
(a) Improving the power and accuracy of weapons.
(b) Shielding the public from scenes of the wounded and dying.
(c) Allowing journalists to represent the war in detail as it happens.
(d) Producing mass casualties and horrific destruction.

4. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?
(a) "War Against War!"
(b) "Guernica."
(c) "Land Distribution Meeting, Extremadura, Spain, 1936"
(d) "Mother and Child, Barcelona, Spain, 1936"

5. The protagonist of J'Accuse, the 1938 anti-war film, cries out which of the following in German and in English?
(a) "Your sacrifices were in vain!"
(b) "The horror!"
(c) "War is ugly!"
(d) "The face of war!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?

2. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?

3. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?

4. Sontag suggests that a catastrophic event that is experienced in real life. . .

5. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?

(see the answer key)

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