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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag corrects her earlier argument by claiming that which of the following is eroded by modern media saturation?
(a) Human decency.
(b) Human empathy.
(c) Sense of reality.
(d) Sense of urgency.

2. Which of the following poets expressed concerns about the effect of national-scale events on human sensibility in 1800?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Pound.
(d) Hemingway.

3. Sontag notes that images of war most significantly influenced which of the following groups?
(a) Those who had experienced war, and were suffering from post-traumatic stress.
(b) Artists whose work centers on conscientious objection.
(c) Governing officials making war decisions.
(d) Those who had never experienced war first-hand.

4. Sontag suggests that to make peace is to do which of the following?
(a) Forget.
(b) Understand.
(c) Forgive.
(d) Remember.

5. In order to take pleasure in suffering, Sontag argues that one must necessarily have which of the following?
(a) Deep seated feelings of misanthropy.
(b) A sense of moral or intellectual superiority.
(c) Distance from the source of suffering.
(d) A sadistic streak characteristic of serial killers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In its early days, photography was thought to:

2. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?

3. Sontag references an agreement in which the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan came together to renounce war. What is the name of this agreement?

4. Sontag suggests that it is still possible to "feel the pulse of Christian iconography" in much war photography. Which famous work of art does she suggest can be seen in W. Eugene Smith's photograph of the woman in Minamata cradling her child?

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

(see the answer key)

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