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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?
(a) A fund benefitting the fire departments that acted to save the victims.
(b) A fund benefitting the spouses of those who died.
(c) A fund benefitting the arts and encouraging photography of New York.
(d) A fund benefitting children who lost parents in the attack.

3. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?
(a) He generalized different social and political situations under the anonymous umbrella of suffering.
(b) He profited greatly from the exhibition of the photographs while the subjects received nothing.
(c) He staged many of the photographs to create more dramatic depictions of human agony.
(d) He reprinted images of refugees without their consent, display a disregard for their rights.

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "takes"?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Etchings.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Drawings.

5. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:
(a) Increase sensitivity toward Middle-Eastern Americans.
(b) Inform the public of the event.
(c) Increase support for military action.
(d) Promote messages of peace and pacificism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The mass media bombarded viewers with shocking images because:

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

3. Fenton's "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" is unique for which of the following reasons?

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

5. Sontag notes that although museums remembering atrocities are common practice, there is no museum in the United States dedicated to which of the following atrocities?

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