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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".
(a) Alter.
(b) Exclude.
(c) Highlight.
(d) Include.

2. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:
(a) Emerged in the arts across Europe after World War I.
(b) Was considered treasonous.
(c) Produced peace.
(d) Overcame the militarized frenzy of the war years.

3. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?
(a) Titian's painting of the flaying of Marsyas.
(b) Picasso's "Guernica."
(c) Da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
(d) Callot's "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War."

4. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?
(a) FCC laws prohibit the printing of images including the faces of war victims.
(b) American news media applies the same standards of decency to all victims, regardless of country of origin.
(c) The faces of the dead and dying from "exotic" places are more likely to be shown.
(d) American journalism favors American subjects, often overlooking people in "remote" places.

5. Sontag argues that Goya's "The Disasters of War" was a turning point in the depiction of suffering. What does she cite as her reason?
(a) The captions, challenging the viewer to look.
(b) The subtlety of the portrayal of war.
(c) The detailed descriptions accompanying the work.
(d) The starkness of Goya's craft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?

2. Events enter the collective memory, not by a natural process of remembering but by:

3. Which of the following thinkers argued that people take "no small" delight in witnessing the suffering of others?

4. Neither compassion nor moral indignation would be enough to do which of the following?

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

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