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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Salvador Dali.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Andre Breton.

2. Which was the first war to be covered by television cameras?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) Desert Storm.
(c) The War on Terror.
(d) The Korean War.

3. Sontag argues that the photograph, unlike the written word, is:
(a) Politically charged.
(b) Always objective.
(c) Artistically inferior.
(d) Subject to interpretation.

4. Which antiwar book which shows images from German military archives does Sontag reference?
(a) Krieg dem Kriege!
(b) The Face of War.
(c) Three Guinneas.
(d) J'accuse.

5. In discussing the difference gender makes in perceptions of war, Sontag agrees with which of the following authors?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Tyler Hicks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?

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

3. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:

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

5. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?

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