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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag suggests that it is still possible to "feel the pulse of Christian iconography" in much war photography. Which famous work of art does she suggest can be seen in W. Eugene Smith's photograph of the woman in Minamata cradling her child?
(a) The Passion of Christ.
(b) Descent from the Cross.
(c) The Last Supper.
(d) The Pieta.

2. Photographic representations of the Vietnam War was essential to promoting:
(a) International relations.
(b) The anti-war movement.
(c) New methods of communication.
(d) Patriotic sentiment.

3. Sontag notes that images of war most significantly influenced which of the following groups?
(a) Artists whose work centers on conscientious objection.
(b) Those who had never experienced war first-hand.
(c) Governing officials making war decisions.
(d) Those who had experienced war, and were suffering from post-traumatic stress.

4. Sontag compares the desire for images of people in pain to which other recurrent type of image?
(a) Images of nude bodies.
(b) Images of love.
(c) Images of happiness.
(d) Images of natural disasters.

5. The Brady war pictures were taken of which of the following wars?
(a) The Crimean War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) The American Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Underneath feelings of apathy, Sontag contends are which of the following feelings?

2. Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (The Disasters of War) was a series of etchings published in 1863. Which of the following events does this series depict?

3. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?

4. Fenton received directions from the War Office to do which of the following?

5. Sontag suggests that a catastrophic event that is experienced in real life. . .

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