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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sontag discusses reactions to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Which of the following is NOT a reaction Sontag recalls hearing?
(a) "It felt surreal."
(b) "It felt like a dream."
(c) "It felt like a movie."
(d) "It felt unreal."

4. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Abel Gance.
(c) Ernst Friedrich.
(d) Anonymous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag argues that witnessing war atrocities from afar is a unique experience characteristic of:

2. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:

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

4. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?

5. Sontag lists many effects of photographs depicting war victims. Which of the following was not one of the effects she lists?

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