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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Sontag claims that American journalists have always followed one tacit prohibition. What have American journalists always avoided?
(a) Printing images of suffering women and children.
(b) Printing images of the faces of American dead.
(c) Printing images of mass American casualties.
(d) Printing images of American-committed war crimes.
2. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:
(a) Essence of the experience.
(b) Complicated circumstances, causes and impact of the event.
(c) Emotional struggles of the victims.
(d) Tension between combatants.
3. Sontag argues that the photograph, unlike the written word, is:
(a) Subject to interpretation.
(b) Always objective.
(c) Politically charged.
(d) Artistically inferior.
4. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?
(a) A soldier was shot and the commander surrendered.
(b) The photograph was snapped and the soldier was hit by a bullet.
(c) A boy died and a helicopter landed.
(d) A shot was fired and a soldier fell.
5. Which of the following magazines was NOT devoted entirely to photography?
(a) Picture Post.
(b) Vu.
(c) National Geographic.
(d) Life.
Short Answer Questions
1. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?
2. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:
3. Neither compassion nor moral indignation would be enough to do which of the following?
4. Fenton's "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" is unique for which of the following reasons?
5. Which two things does Sontag say seem to go together?
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