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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?
(a) The mass deaths during the Spanish Civil War.
(b) The casualties of Bunker Hill.
(c) The dead and dying of the Korean War.
(d) The atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.

2. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?
(a) American journalism favors American subjects, often overlooking people in "remote" places.
(b) American news media applies the same standards of decency to all victims, regardless of country of origin.
(c) The faces of the dead and dying from "exotic" places are more likely to be shown.
(d) FCC laws prohibit the printing of images including the faces of war victims.

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

4. Sontag notes that post-colonial Africa is most commonly known to the American public based on a series of which of the following groups of images?
(a) Images of American aid groups, support-a-child network assistants, and refugee camps.
(b) Images of post-war development and national improvement.
(c) Still images of freedom fighters, revolutionary independence movements, and guerrilla insurgencies.
(d) Photographs of the famine fields of Biafra, the Rwandan genocide, and the AIDS epidemic.

5. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?
(a) More than one million.
(b) Less than one hundred.
(c) Less five hundred.
(d) More than one thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:

2. Sontag suggests that the camera always "kept company with _________".

3. Images of the Gulf War were filtered to portray the "techno war." The public was exposed to only those images that portrayed which of the following sentiments?

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "takes"?

5. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?

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