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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag suggests that the camera always "kept company with _________".
(a) War.
(b) Art.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

2. "Without Sanctuary" was a book of photographs taken of which of the following atrocities?
(a) Lynchings of black Americans in the 1930s.
(b) The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
(c) Japanese internment in the U.S.
(d) The Rwanda atrocities.

3. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:
(a) Newspapers and magazines caption the images.
(b) Photojournalists are unreliable.
(c) Images can be staged or manipulated.
(d) Anyone can photograph an event.

4. The West had a long tradition of viewing war as which of the following?
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Honorable.
(d) Atrocity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _______ is a classic use for the camera.

3. Sontag argues that the most extensive kind of censorship is which of the following?

4. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".

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

(see the answer key)

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