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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:
(a) Avoidable.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Perennial.
(d) Horrific.

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

5. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?
(a) Age.
(b) Gender.
(c) Status.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?

2. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"

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

5. Sontag argues that Woolf's view, like many other "antiwar polemicists" is:

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