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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:
(a) Essence of the experience.
(b) Tension between combatants.
(c) Complicated circumstances, causes and impact of the event.
(d) Emotional struggles of the victims.

2. The first war photographer, whose work garnered him the position as "official photographer" of the Crimean War, was which of the following?
(a) Robert Capa.
(b) Roger Fenton.
(c) Edmund Gosse.
(d) Ernst Friedrich.

3. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.
(b) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.
(c) Maxims, proverbs and songs.
(d) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.

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

5. Sontag notes that images of war most significantly influenced which of the following groups?
(a) Those who had never experienced war first-hand.
(b) Artists whose work centers on conscientious objection.
(c) Governing officials making war decisions.
(d) Those who had experienced war, and were suffering from post-traumatic stress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. Sontag discusses "Here Is New York," a photography exhibit depicting September 11th. Whom did the organizers ask to contribute photographs?

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