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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of World War II, a group of journalists formed Magnum Photo Agency. Which of the following photographers was not among them?
(a) Robert Capa.
(b) Ernst Friedrich.
(c) David Seymour.
(d) Henri Cartier-Bresson.

2. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?
(a) A dying Republican soldier and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(b) A dying Republican soldier and a mother holding her child while looking at the sky.
(c) A mother holding her child while looking at the sky and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(d) The bombing of Guernica and Vitalis men's hair cream.

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

4. Krieg dem Kriege contains images captioned in which four languages?
(a) German, French, English and Russian.
(b) German, French, Dutch and English.
(c) German, French, English and Japanese.
(d) German, French, English and Spanish.

5. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:
(a) A clean, necessary and effectively fought war.
(b) A hopeless waste of human energy and life.
(c) An atrocity committed on the world stage.
(d) The war to end all wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:

2. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?

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?

4. The protagonist of J'Accuse, the 1938 anti-war film, cries out which of the following in German and in English?

5. The mass media bombarded viewers with shocking images because:

(see the answer key)

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