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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Anonymous.
(c) Ernst Friedrich.
(d) Abel Gance.
2. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.
(b) Maxims, proverbs and songs.
(c) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.
(d) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.
3. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?
(a) Etchings and drawings.
(b) Drawings and paintings.
(c) Photographs and etchings.
(d) Paintings and photographs.
4. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:
(a) Photojournalists are unreliable.
(b) Anyone can photograph an event.
(c) Newspapers and magazines caption the images.
(d) Images can be staged or manipulated.
5. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1902.
Short Answer Questions
1. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:
2. "Without Sanctuary" was a book of photographs taken of which of the following atrocities?
3. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?
4. Sontag cites the Japanese narrative "Chushingura" in which the protagonist stops to appreciate the beauty of cherry blossoms one last time before committing ritual suicide as an example of which kind of shocking art?
5. 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?
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