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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag argues that there are two extreme positions on a spectrum of war experience which create the same idea that images of war are no longer emotionally-jarring for an audience? Which two positions are they?
(a) Victims and perpetrators of atrocity.
(b) Scholars and politicians.
(c) Unexperienced cynics and the war-weary.
(d) Soldiers and civilians of war-torn regions.

2. What does Sontag claim as our only connection with the dead?
(a) Love.
(b) Memory.
(c) Images.
(d) Graves.

3. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?
(a) Hugo Chavez.
(b) A wounded Taliban soldier.
(c) Osama Bin Laden.
(d) The destruction of the Twin Towers.

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

5. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:
(a) Perennial.
(b) Horrific.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Avoidable.

Short Answer Questions

1. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:

2. Sontag argues that the most extensive kind of censorship is which of the following?

3. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?

4. Sontag notes that images of war most significantly influenced which of the following groups?

5. Which two things does Sontag say seem to go together?

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