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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag argues that which of the following effects keeps the television viewer's attention "light", "mobile" and fairly "indifferent" to the images on the screen?
(a) Overload.
(b) Image-glut.
(c) Media coverage.
(d) Advertising.

2. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?
(a) The Spanish Civil War.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

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) Improving the power and accuracy of weapons.
(c) Producing mass casualties and horrific destruction.
(d) Shielding the public from scenes of the wounded and dying.

4. Sontag notes that at the time Virginia Woolf wrote "Three Guineas," war journalism was different than it is now. How was it different?
(a) It was less graphic.
(b) It was more common.
(c) It was more disturbing.
(d) It was less prevalent.

5. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:
(a) A hopeless waste of human energy and life.
(b) A clean, necessary and effectively fought war.
(c) An atrocity committed on the world stage.
(d) The war to end all wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag notes that post-colonial Africa is most commonly known to the American public based on a series of which of the following groups of images?

2. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?

3. Discussing the common person's ability to feel sympathy, Sontag argues which of the following?

4. Georges Bataille, famous for his studies of the erotic, kept which of the following images on his desk?

5. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?

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