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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag claims that American journalists have always followed one tacit prohibition. What have American journalists always avoided?
(a) Printing images of the faces of American dead.
(b) Printing images of suffering women and children.
(c) Printing images of mass American casualties.
(d) Printing images of American-committed war crimes.

2. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:
(a) Complicated circumstances, causes and impact of the event.
(b) Essence of the experience.
(c) Tension between combatants.
(d) Emotional struggles of the victims.

3. Recalling traditions of the 16th and 17th century, Sontag claims that printing images of dark-skinned people in moments of suffering or pain is part of a long tradition of which of the following?
(a) Displaying the bodies of the colonized or dominated.
(b) Drumming up feelings of superiority over the colonized or dominated.
(c) Protesting oppressive treatment of the colonized or dominated.
(d) Creating interest in the human rights violations committed against the colonized or dominated.

4. At the time Sontag wrote the book, many felt what which of the following made atrocity photographs immoral?
(a) Abstractness.
(b) Context.
(c) Permanence.
(d) Exploitation.

5. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) The Boer War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?

2. Sontag, confirming Walter Lippmann's assertion, argues that photography replaced which of the following media for representing the truth?

3. Sontag cites William Hazlitt's claim that sympathy is no more a part of human nature than is which of the following?

4. According to Sontag, people are less responsive to images of violence in which of the following contexts?

5. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?

(see the answer key)

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