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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, war journalism first developed during which of the following two wars?
(a) World War I and World War II.
(b) The Crimean War and the American Civil War.
(c) The American Revolution and the American Civil War.
(d) World War II and the Vietnam War.

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

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

4. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:
(a) Was considered treasonous.
(b) Overcame the militarized frenzy of the war years.
(c) Produced peace.
(d) Emerged in the arts across Europe after World War I.

5. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:
(a) Improving the power and accuracy of weapons.
(b) Shielding the public from scenes of the wounded and dying.
(c) Producing mass casualties and horrific destruction.
(d) Allowing journalists to represent the war in detail as it happens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In discussing the difference gender makes in perceptions of war, Sontag agrees with which of the following authors?

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

4. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:

5. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?

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