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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was the first war to be covered by television cameras?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The War on Terror.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) Desert Storm.

2. Sontag argues that Woolf's view, like many other "antiwar polemicists" is:
(a) Idealistic.
(b) Narrow-minded.
(c) Out-dated.
(d) Generic.

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

4. 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) Edmund Gosse.
(c) Ernst Friedrich.
(d) Roger Fenton.

5. 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 like a movie."
(b) "It felt like a dream."
(c) "It felt unreal."
(d) "It felt surreal."

Short Answer Questions

1. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?

2. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?

3. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?

4. Which of the following was NOT true of the "Here Is New York" exhibit?

5. In its early days, photography was thought to:

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