1. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:
(a) Images can be staged or manipulated.
(b) Photojournalists are unreliable.
(c) Newspapers and magazines caption the images.
(d) Anyone can photograph an event.

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

3. According to Sontag, _________ also influences the public's perception of war.
(a) Government policies.
(b) Education.
(c) Anti-war sentiment.
(d) Hollywood.

4. Which technological advancement changed the way war was photographed after World War I?
(a) Weaponry.
(b) Transportation.
(c) Lightweight cameras.
(d) Lighting equipment.

5. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?
(a) Hugo Chavez.
(b) The destruction of the Twin Towers.
(c) A wounded Taliban soldier.
(d) Osama Bin Laden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag references an agreement in which the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan came together to renounce war. What is the name of this agreement?

2. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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