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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) The statue of Laocoon and his sons.
(b) Images of the martyrdom of the Christian saints.
(c) The Pieta.
(d) Images and scultpures of the Passion of Christ.

3. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Boer War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Spanish Civil War.

4. Sontag, confirming Walter Lippmann's assertion, argues that photography replaced which of the following media for representing the truth?
(a) Artistic representations such as paintings or drawings.
(b) Religious texts such as the Bible.
(c) Scientific studies.
(d) Eye-witness testimonies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:

2. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?

3. A heated debate emerged when a weekly paper in Boston ran a video of which American journalist's execution in Pakistan?

4. The Brady war pictures were taken of which of the following wars?

5. Although the camera captures the scene in front of it, Sontag suggests that the ______ may manipulate the image.

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