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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Noting the long history of the "iconography of suffering," Sontag lists three types of art which depict incredible agony. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
(a) The Pieta.
(b) The statue of Laocoon and his sons.
(c) Images of the martyrdom of the Christian saints.
(d) Images and scultpures of the Passion of Christ.

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

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

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

5. 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) David Seymour.
(b) Robert Capa.
(c) Henri Cartier-Bresson.
(d) Ernst Friedrich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag notes that images of war most significantly influenced which of the following groups?

2. In its early days, photography was thought to:

3. Which was the first war to be covered by television cameras?

4. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:

5. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?

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