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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 of empathy and imagination.
(b) Failure to behave humanely.
(c) Failure of ignorance.
(d) Failure of wealth.

3. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:
(a) Increase sensitivity toward Middle-Eastern Americans.
(b) Promote messages of peace and pacificism.
(c) Increase support for military action.
(d) Inform the public of the event.

4. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?
(a) A soldier was shot and the commander surrendered.
(b) A shot was fired and a soldier fell.
(c) The photograph was snapped and the soldier was hit by a bullet.
(d) A boy died and a helicopter landed.

5. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first war photographer, whose work garnered him the position as "official photographer" of the Crimean War, was which of the following?

2. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:

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

4. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:

5. Fenton's "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" is unique for which of the following reasons?

(see the answer key)

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