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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two things does Sontag say seem to go together?
(a) Trauma and memory.
(b) Death and heartlessness.
(c) Heartlessness and amnesia.
(d) Amnesia and trauma.

2. Events enter the collective memory, not by a natural process of remembering but by:
(a) Subconscious selection.
(b) Government propaganda.
(c) Active designation of significance.
(d) Repeated exposure.

3. Which of the following does Sontag suggest is an ethical act?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Remembering.
(c) Mourning.
(d) Loving.

4. Sontag argues that a photograph by which of these photographers triggered mass outcry against the Vietnam War?
(a) Larry Burroughs.
(b) Ernst Friedrich.
(c) Henri Cartier-Bresson.
(d) Robert Capa.

5. Sontag claims that Bataille could see extreme pain as a form of __________.
(a) Deification.
(b) Sadomasochism.
(c) Erotic pleasure.
(d) Transfiguration.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sontag, people are less responsive to images of violence in which of the following contexts?

2. Sontag suggests that a catastrophic event that is experienced in real life. . .

3. In its early days, photography was thought to:

4. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?

5. Sontag claims that some photographs which are "repulsive" can also ________.

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