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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which antiwar book which shows images from German military archives does Sontag reference?
(a) The Face of War.
(b) Three Guinneas.
(c) J'accuse.
(d) Krieg dem Kriege!

2. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?
(a) Tele-intimacy.
(b) Comfortable distance.
(c) Mediated intimacy.
(d) Diplomatic distance.

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

4. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:
(a) Photojournalists are unreliable.
(b) Images can be staged or manipulated.
(c) Newspapers and magazines caption the images.
(d) Anyone can photograph an event.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag compares the desire for images of people in pain to which other recurrent type of image?

2. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:

3. In interpreting photographs, Sontag claims that everyone approaches the image as which of the following?

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?

5. Krieg dem Kriege contains images captioned in which four languages?

(see the answer key)

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