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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms does Sontag define as a commonly used term for those whose profession like journalists takes them into war zones?
(a) War tourism.
(b) War voyeurism.
(c) Conflict exploitation.
(d) Atrocity tourism.

2. 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.

3. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?
(a) American news media applies the same standards of decency to all victims, regardless of country of origin.
(b) The faces of the dead and dying from "exotic" places are more likely to be shown.
(c) FCC laws prohibit the printing of images including the faces of war victims.
(d) American journalism favors American subjects, often overlooking people in "remote" places.

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "takes"?
(a) Etchings.
(b) Drawings.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Paintings.

5. 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?
(a) World War I.
(b) Napoleon's invasion of Spain.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) The bombing of Guernica.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was generally thought that public awareness was largely guided by which of the following?

2. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?

3. In discussing the difference gender makes in perceptions of war, Sontag agrees with which of the following authors?

4. _______ is a modern development in camera use.

5. Sontag corrects her earlier argument by claiming that which of the following is eroded by modern media saturation?

(see the answer key)

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