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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Many of the scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" were based on works by which famous World War I photographer?
(a) Robert Capa.
(b) Ernst Friedrich.
(c) Gilles Peress.
(d) Roger Fenton.

3. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:
(a) Allowing journalists to represent the war in detail as it happens.
(b) Shielding the public from scenes of the wounded and dying.
(c) Producing mass casualties and horrific destruction.
(d) Improving the power and accuracy of weapons.

4. Sontag discusses the subtitle of "Here is New York" in some detail. What was this subtitle?
(a) "A Democracy of Images."
(b) "A City Mourns."
(c) "September 11th, 2001."
(d) "A Nation in Shock."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:

2. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?

3. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?

4. In interpreting photographs, Sontag claims that everyone approaches the image as which of the following?

5. Which antiwar book which shows images from German military archives does Sontag reference?

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