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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag references an agreement in which the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan came together to renounce war. What is the name of this agreement?
(a) The Treaty of Versailles.
(b) The Non-Aggression Pact of 1937.
(c) Kellogg-Briad Pact of 1928.
(d) The Treaty of Brandenburg.

2. According to Sontag, if one feels sympathy for the victims of suffering, it helps ensure that one cannot be ___________.
(a) Responsible for or complicit in the suffering.
(b) A heartless bystander.
(c) A sadistic voyeur.
(d) An objective observer.

3. 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) Indifference.
(b) Outrage.
(c) Delight.
(d) Arousal.

4. Which work of literature does Sontag cite as evidence that war was once seen as part of a man's life?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) The Aeneid.
(d) The Republic.

5. Concerned with the public health risk posed by cigarette smoking, officials in which country suggested that images of black lungs, damaged hearts or periodontal disease be included on the warning label for tobacco products?
(a) United States.
(b) France.
(c) United Kindgom.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Without Sanctuary" was a book of photographs taken of which of the following atrocities?

2. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?

3. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:

4. Sontag criticizes American portrayals of U.S. military strategy, saying that war museums do not emphasize which of the following?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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