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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Brady war pictures were taken of which of the following wars?
(a) The Crimean War.
(b) The Spanish Civil War.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) World War I.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag argues that a photograph by which of these photographers triggered mass outcry against the Vietnam War?

2. Although the camera captures the scene in front of it, Sontag suggests that the ______ may manipulate the image.

3. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?

4. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:

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

(see the answer key)

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