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

2. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?
(a) Status.
(b) Gender.
(c) Culture.
(d) Age.

3. Restrictions on media coverage of the British campaign in the Falklands was notable for which of the following reasons?
(a) They were stricter than any censorship since the Crimean War.
(b) They opened the event to full-scale television coverage.
(c) They allowed only government-sponsored journalists.
(d) They prohibited foreign journalists from covering the story.

4. Although the camera captures the scene in front of it, Sontag suggests that the ______ may manipulate the image.
(a) Media.
(b) Editor.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Press.

5. 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?
(a) Savagery of conventional warfare, compared to American techno war.
(b) American military mercy.
(c) American military superiority over the enemy.
(d) Wondrous technological advancements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (The Disasters of War) was a series of etchings published in 1863. Which of the following events does this series depict?

2. Which of the following magazines was NOT devoted entirely to photography?

3. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?

4. 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?

5. The first war photographer, whose work garnered him the position as "official photographer" of the Crimean War, was which of the following?

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