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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT true of the "Here Is New York" exhibit?
(a) The identity of the photographer was kept secret until after the image was purchased.
(b) The images were displayed uncaptioned.
(c) One image from each contributer was selected.
(d) Images were selected on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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

3. Sontag observes that "Here Is New York" had no need for captions, but suggests that:
(a) Many people misunderstood the images.
(b) Many visitors were offended by the images they saw because they did not have a caption to explain them.
(c) The photographers complained that their work did not receive proper explanation.
(d) One day, they will be necessary for those who did not experience the tragedy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?

3. Sontag discusses the subtitle of "Here is New York" in some detail. What was this subtitle?

4. Sontag argues that Woolf's view, like many other "antiwar polemicists" is:

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

(see the answer key)

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