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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sebastiao Salgado's work called "Migrations: Humanity in Transition" was often criticized as being:
(a) "Exploitative."
(b) "Generalizing."
(c) "Melodramatic."
(d) "Cinematic."

2. Contemporary society, at the time Sontag wrote the book, unanimously witnessed a rise of which of the following in the media?
(a) Sadism and sexuality.
(b) War protest.
(c) Violence and sadism.
(d) Violence and sexuality.

3. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?
(a) A soldier was shot and the commander surrendered.
(b) A boy died and a helicopter landed.
(c) A shot was fired and a soldier fell.
(d) The photograph was snapped and the soldier was hit by a bullet.

4. Sontag suggests that the camera always "kept company with _________".
(a) Life.
(b) Art.
(c) Death.
(d) War.

5. Which of the following best describes the "CNN effect" as discussed by Sontag?
(a) Media coverage lead to the sentiment that something must be done.
(b) Outrageous media coverage lead to a backlash against the media.
(c) Extensive media coverage directly affected local politics.
(d) Distorted media coverage misleads the public.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Fenton's "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" is unique for which of the following reasons?

3. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?

4. Sontag suggests that photographs do NOT ask which of the following tasks of the viewers?

5. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "takes"?

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