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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:
(a) Failure to behave humanely.
(b) Failure of wealth.
(c) Failure of empathy and imagination.
(d) Failure of ignorance.

2. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".
(a) Exclude.
(b) Alter.
(c) Include.
(d) Highlight.

3. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?
(a) Da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
(b) Titian's painting of the flaying of Marsyas.
(c) Callot's "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War."
(d) Picasso's "Guernica."

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?
(a) Photographs and etchings.
(b) Drawings and paintings.
(c) Etchings and drawings.
(d) Paintings and photographs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following was NOT true of the "Here Is New York" exhibit?

4. 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?

5. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?

(see the answer key)

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