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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 surreal."
(b) "It felt like a dream."
(c) "It felt like a movie."
(d) "It felt unreal."

2. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?
(a) Abel Gance.
(b) Ernst Friedrich.
(c) Anonymous.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

3. In discussing the difference gender makes in perceptions of war, Sontag agrees with which of the following authors?
(a) Joyce Carol Oates.
(b) Tyler Hicks.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Henry James.

4. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".
(a) Exclude.
(b) Include.
(c) Highlight.
(d) Alter.

5. Which of the following poets expressed concerns about the effect of national-scale events on human sensibility in 1800?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Pound.
(d) Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag argues that Goya's "The Disasters of War" was a turning point in the depiction of suffering. What does she cite as her reason?

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

3. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:

4. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:

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

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