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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Discussing the common person's ability to feel sympathy, Sontag argues which of the following?
(a) People will naturally feel empathy, but will quickly distance themselves because society has programmed them to avoid involvement.
(b) People will instinctually distance themselves from suffering.
(c) People will automatically feel sympathy for victims of atrocity.
(d) People will do anything to keep from being moved by what they see.

2. Concerned with the public health risk posed by cigarette smoking, officials in which country suggested that images of black lungs, damaged hearts or periodontal disease be included on the warning label for tobacco products?
(a) United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) United Kindgom.
(d) France.

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

4. Which of the following photographers exhibited photographs of Sarajevo in 1994?
(a) Jeff Wall.
(b) Paul Lowe.
(c) Larisa Shepitko.
(d) Frederick Wiseman.

5. Sontag discusses another common belief regarding media coverage of an event, and suggested that it may seem to contradict the first common belief she addresses. What is this second idea?
(a) The media sensationalizes stories of atrocity.
(b) Limited exposure diminishes the impact the images have on an audience.
(c) Overexposure to images in the media makes people callous.
(d) Repeated images in the media exhaust our ability to prevent new atrocities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag refutes the possibility of a suggestion she made in "On Photography". Which of the following ideas did she refute?

2. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?

3. Sontag, confirming Walter Lippmann's assertion, argues that photography replaced which of the following media for representing the truth?

4. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?

5. 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?

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