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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first war photographer, whose work garnered him the position as "official photographer" of the Crimean War, was which of the following?
(a) Ernst Friedrich.
(b) Edmund Gosse.
(c) Roger Fenton.
(d) Robert Capa.

2. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Cautious.
(c) Restrained.
(d) Pitiless.

3. The West had a long tradition of viewing war as which of the following?
(a) Honorable.
(b) Atrocity.
(c) Spectacle.
(d) Necessary.

4. Sontag claims that shock used for rhetorical purposes can become _________.
(a) Familiar.
(b) New.
(c) Damaging.
(d) Dangerous.

5. Sontag discusses the use of images of the dead to bolster hatred of the enemy. Which of the following recent events, aired on the Al Jazeera network, does she use as an example?
(a) The invasion of Iraq in 2003.
(b) The hanging of Sadam Hussein.
(c) The destruction of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002.
(d) The destruction of the Word Trade Center in 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. Krieg dem Kriege contains images captioned in which four languages?

2. Photographic representations of the Vietnam War was essential to promoting:

3. Sontag compares the desire for images of people in pain to which other recurrent type of image?

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. In transforming an event or person into something that can be owned, photographs:

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