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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Although the camera captures the scene in front of it, Sontag suggests that the ______ may manipulate the image.
(a) Press.
(b) Media.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Editor.

3. Restrictions on media coverage of the British campaign in the Falklands was notable for which of the following reasons?
(a) They opened the event to full-scale television coverage.
(b) They were stricter than any censorship since the Crimean War.
(c) They allowed only government-sponsored journalists.
(d) They prohibited foreign journalists from covering the story.

4. Sontag discusses reactions to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Which of the following is NOT a reaction Sontag recalls hearing?
(a) "It felt like a dream."
(b) "It felt like a movie."
(c) "It felt unreal."
(d) "It felt surreal."

5. 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?
(a) Delight.
(b) Outrage.
(c) Arousal.
(d) Indifference.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag suggests that Plato anticipated which of the following psychological models?

2. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:

3. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?

4. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?

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

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