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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In transforming an event or person into something that can be owned, photographs:
(a) Elevate.
(b) Degrade.
(c) Objectify.
(d) Commoditize.

2. Underneath feelings of apathy, Sontag contends are which of the following feelings?
(a) Anger and righteousness.
(b) Sentimentality and despair.
(c) Frustration and rage.
(d) Superiority and indifference.

3. According to Sontag, people are less responsive to images of violence in which of the following contexts?
(a) Armed conflicts amassing the deaths of military personnel.
(b) Instances of mass casualty.
(c) Times of seemingly unending war.
(d) Times of relative peace in one's home nation.

4. According to Sontag, war journalism first developed during which of the following two wars?
(a) World War II and the Vietnam War.
(b) The Crimean War and the American Civil War.
(c) World War I and World War II.
(d) The American Revolution and the American Civil War.

5. At the end of World War II, a group of journalists formed Magnum Photo Agency. Which of the following photographers was not among them?
(a) Ernst Friedrich.
(b) Robert Capa.
(c) Henri Cartier-Bresson.
(d) David Seymour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Recalling traditions of the 16th and 17th century, Sontag claims that printing images of dark-skinned people in moments of suffering or pain is part of a long tradition of which of the following?

2. Which technological advancement changed the way war was photographed after World War I?

3. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?

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

5. Sontag argues that the photograph, unlike the written word, is:

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