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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag discusses reactions to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Which of the following is NOT a reaction Sontag recalls hearing?
(a) "It felt surreal."
(b) "It felt like a movie."
(c) "It felt unreal."
(d) "It felt like a dream."

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

3. Who took the infamous image of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong suspect in the street?
(a) Eddie Adams.
(b) Timothy O'Sullivan.
(c) Roger Fenton.
(d) Roger Capa.

4. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?
(a) They are too graphic.
(b) They are inappropriate for mass publication.
(c) They require context and explanation.
(d) They inspire only disgust.

5. The Brady group's approach to war photography differed from Fenton's approach in which of the following ways?
(a) The Brady group photographed the war without government permission, while Fenton had permission for his work.
(b) The Brady group was not commissioned by the government, while Fenton was.
(c) The Brady group had permission to access the fields, while Fenton did not.
(d) The Brady group was commissioned by the government, while Fenton was not.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?

2. The protagonist of J'Accuse, the 1938 anti-war film, cries out which of the following in German and in English?

3. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?

4. Sontag claims that Jacques Callot's 1633 painting, "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War" was unprecedented for which of the following reasons?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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