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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The Spanish Civil War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

3. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:
(a) The war to end all wars.
(b) A clean, necessary and effectively fought war.
(c) An atrocity committed on the world stage.
(d) A hopeless waste of human energy and life.

4. Sontag claims that American journalists have always followed one tacit prohibition. What have American journalists always avoided?
(a) Printing images of suffering women and children.
(b) Printing images of the faces of American dead.
(c) Printing images of mass American casualties.
(d) Printing images of American-committed war crimes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?

2. Sontag claims that images of suffering in Africa send a double message. Which of the following best represents that message?

3. Recalling traditions of the 16th and 17th century, Sontag claims that printing images of dark-skinned people in moments of suffering or pain is part of a long tradition of which of the following?

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?

5. According to Sontag, photographs of atrocities are best received if they are:

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