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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag discusses reactions to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Which of the following is NOT a reaction Sontag recalls hearing?
(a) "It felt like a movie."
(b) "It felt unreal."
(c) "It felt like a dream."
(d) "It felt surreal."

2. Sontag observes that "Here Is New York" had no need for captions, but suggests that:
(a) Many people misunderstood the images.
(b) Many visitors were offended by the images they saw because they did not have a caption to explain them.
(c) One day, they will be necessary for those who did not experience the tragedy.
(d) The photographers complained that their work did not receive proper explanation.

3. Sontag argues that the photograph, unlike the written word, is:
(a) Politically charged.
(b) Always objective.
(c) Subject to interpretation.
(d) Artistically inferior.

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

5. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT true of the "Here Is New York" exhibit?

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

3. At the end of World War II, a group of journalists formed Magnum Photo Agency. Which of the following photographers was not among them?

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

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

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