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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.
2. Which technological advancement changed the way war was photographed after World War I?
(a) Lighting equipment.
(b) Lightweight cameras.
(c) Transportation.
(d) Weaponry.
3. In its early days, photography was thought to:
(a) Glorify scenes of suffering.
(b) Represent objective truth.
(c) Diminish the emotional impact of an event.
(d) Depict a single, biased point of view.
4. 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) A dying Republican soldier and a mother holding her child while looking at the sky.
(c) A dying Republican soldier and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(d) The bombing of Guernica and Vitalis men's hair cream.
5. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?
(a) Osama Bin Laden.
(b) A wounded Taliban soldier.
(c) Hugo Chavez.
(d) The destruction of the Twin Towers.
Short Answer Questions
1. Sontag compares the desire for images of people in pain to which other recurrent type of image?
2. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:
3. Sontag discusses the use of images of the dead to bolster hatred of the enemy. Which of the following recent events, aired on the Al Jazeera network, does she use as an example?
4. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?
5. Noting the long history of the "iconography of suffering," Sontag lists three types of art which depict incredible agony. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
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