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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographic representations of the Vietnam War was essential to promoting:
(a) Patriotic sentiment.
(b) The anti-war movement.
(c) International relations.
(d) New methods of communication.

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

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

4. 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.

5. In its early days, photography was thought to:
(a) Represent objective truth.
(b) Glorify scenes of suffering.
(c) Depict a single, biased point of view.
(d) Diminish the emotional impact of an event.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:

2. Sontag calls for the reader's sympathy for the wounded Taliban soldier whose pain graced the cover of "The New York Times" by suggesting which of the following?

3. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?

4. The footage from a 1898 charge of Colonel Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was replaced with film of a staged charge later for which of the following reasons?

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

(see the answer key)

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