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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?
(a) Picasso's "Guernica."
(b) Titian's painting of the flaying of Marsyas.
(c) Da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
(d) Callot's "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War."

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

3. The mass media bombarded viewers with shocking images because:
(a) The public demanded the uncensored truth.
(b) People secretly enjoy images of mass destruction.
(c) These images received the highest interest ratings in viewer polls.
(d) They were more likely to stand out from the countless images people saw every day.

4. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?
(a) "Guernica."
(b) "War Against War!"
(c) "Mother and Child, Barcelona, Spain, 1936"
(d) "Land Distribution Meeting, Extremadura, Spain, 1936"

5. Sontag writes that provocative images may have which of the following effects on viewers?
(a) Provocative images of suffering may incite humanitarian actions to end exploitative actions.
(b) Provocative images of suffering may enable a deep sense of human empathy.
(c) Provocative images of suffering may compel viewers to stop subscribing to newspapers for fear of seeing more disturbing photographs.
(d) Provocative images may spur viewers to examine how their own privileges are possible through the suffering of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Recounting a conversation with a Sarajevan woman, Sontag claims that when people are safe, they will feel which of the following toward atrocities committed abroad?

2. Sontag discusses the subtitle of "Here is New York" in some detail. What was this subtitle?

3. Sontag argues that Goya's "The Disasters of War" was a turning point in the depiction of suffering. What does she cite as her reason?

4. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:

5. In interpreting photographs, Sontag claims that everyone approaches the image as which of the following?

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