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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.
(b) Maxims, proverbs and songs.
(c) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.
(d) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.

2. Sontag discusses the subtitle of "Here is New York" in some detail. What was this subtitle?
(a) "A City Mourns."
(b) "A Democracy of Images."
(c) "September 11th, 2001."
(d) "A Nation in Shock."

3. Sontag discusses "Here Is New York," a photography exhibit depicting September 11th. Whom did the organizers ask to contribute photographs?
(a) Anyone who captured an image of the tragedy.
(b) Amateurs only.
(c) Photojournalists only.
(d) Professional artists only.

4. 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?
(a) The Non-Aggression Pact of 1937.
(b) The Treaty of Brandenburg.
(c) The Treaty of Versailles.
(d) Kellogg-Briad Pact of 1928.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?

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

3. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?

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

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

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