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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:
(a) Failure to behave humanely.
(b) Failure of wealth.
(c) Failure of ignorance.
(d) Failure of empathy and imagination.

2. The protagonist of J'Accuse, the 1938 anti-war film, cries out which of the following in German and in English?
(a) "The face of war!"
(b) "The horror!"
(c) "War is ugly!"
(d) "Your sacrifices were in vain!"

3. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:
(a) Complicated circumstances, causes and impact of the event.
(b) Tension between combatants.
(c) Emotional struggles of the victims.
(d) Essence of the experience.

4. Sontag argues that Woolf's view, like many other "antiwar polemicists" is:
(a) Generic.
(b) Narrow-minded.
(c) Out-dated.
(d) Idealistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:

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

3. Sontag discusses the use of images of the dead to bolster hatred of the enemy. Which of the following recent events, aired on the Al Jazeera network, does she use as an example?

4. According to Sontag, _________ also influences the public's perception of war.

5. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:

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