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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Underneath feelings of apathy, Sontag contends are which of the following feelings?
(a) Anger and righteousness.
(b) Sentimentality and despair.
(c) Superiority and indifference.
(d) Frustration and rage.

2. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?
(a) He reprinted images of refugees without their consent, display a disregard for their rights.
(b) He profited greatly from the exhibition of the photographs while the subjects received nothing.
(c) He staged many of the photographs to create more dramatic depictions of human agony.
(d) He generalized different social and political situations under the anonymous umbrella of suffering.

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

4. Which of the following best describes the "CNN effect" as discussed by Sontag?
(a) Outrageous media coverage lead to a backlash against the media.
(b) Distorted media coverage misleads the public.
(c) Extensive media coverage directly affected local politics.
(d) Media coverage lead to the sentiment that something must be done.

5. Sontag discusses "Here Is New York," a photography exhibit depicting September 11th. Whom did the organizers ask to contribute photographs?
(a) Professional artists only.
(b) Photojournalists only.
(c) Anyone who captured an image of the tragedy.
(d) Amateurs only.

Short Answer Questions

1. The West had a long tradition of viewing war as which of the following?

2. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"

3. Sontag cites William Hazlitt's claim that sympathy is no more a part of human nature than is which of the following?

4. Sontag calls for the reader's sympathy for the wounded Taliban soldier whose pain graced the cover of "The New York Times" by suggesting which of the following?

5. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?

(see the answer key)

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