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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag compares the desire for images of people in pain to which other recurrent type of image?
(a) Images of natural disasters.
(b) Images of nude bodies.
(c) Images of happiness.
(d) Images of love.

2. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?
(a) Orlando.
(b) The Hours.
(c) Three Guineas.
(d) Mrs. Dalloway.

3. In its early days, photography was thought to:
(a) Glorify scenes of suffering.
(b) Represent objective truth.
(c) Depict a single, biased point of view.
(d) Diminish the emotional impact of an event.

4. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?
(a) A dying Republican soldier and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(b) The bombing of Guernica and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(c) A mother holding her child while looking at the sky and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(d) A dying Republican soldier and a mother holding her child while looking at the sky.

5. Fenton received directions from the War Office to do which of the following?
(a) Generate propaganda for Britain.
(b) Avoid photographing the ill, wounded, dying and dead.
(c) Graphically depict the horrors of war.
(d) Glorify war through patriotic images.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was generally thought that public awareness was largely guided by which of the following?

2. Sontag notes that although museums remembering atrocities are common practice, there is no museum in the United States dedicated to which of the following atrocities?

3. What is the primary message carried by images of atrocity?

4. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?

5. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"

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