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

2. 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) "Guernica."
(b) "War Against War!"
(c) "Land Distribution Meeting, Extremadura, Spain, 1936"
(d) "Mother and Child, Barcelona, Spain, 1936"

3. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.
(b) Maxims, proverbs and songs.
(c) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.
(d) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.

4. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?
(a) They are too graphic.
(b) They are inappropriate for mass publication.
(c) They require context and explanation.
(d) They inspire only disgust.

5. Sontag argues that a photograph by which of these photographers triggered mass outcry against the Vietnam War?
(a) Larry Burroughs.
(b) Robert Capa.
(c) Ernst Friedrich.
(d) Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:

4. Sontag lists many effects of photographs depicting war victims. Which of the following was not one of the effects she lists?

5. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?

(see the answer key)

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