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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wall's photograph enable soldiers to do that they could not do in "real" life?
(a) Condemn the viewer.
(b) Communicate propaganda.
(c) Glorify war.
(d) Speak while dead.

2. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?
(a) Paintings and photographs.
(b) Etchings and drawings.
(c) Drawings and paintings.
(d) Photographs and etchings.

3. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?
(a) The media hyped the conflicts by airing footage during each broadcast.
(b) Most people believe that atrocities like that do not happen in Europe.
(c) The violence was more extreme than other conflicts of the era.
(d) Government propaganda incited great public interest.

4. Georges Bataille, famous for his studies of the erotic, kept which of the following images on his desk?
(a) A famous pornographic image, taken in late19th century France.
(b) A photograph of the Chinese torture "the death of a hundred cuts".
(c) A painting of the bombing of Guernica.
(d) A photograph of the statue of David.

5. Sontag corrects her earlier argument by claiming that which of the following is eroded by modern media saturation?
(a) Sense of urgency.
(b) Human decency.
(c) Sense of reality.
(d) Human empathy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The footage from a 1898 charge of Colonel Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was replaced with film of a staged charge later for which of the following reasons?

3. Sontag claims that "good taste" is always _________ when invoked by institutions.

4. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?

5. Which of the following best describes the "CNN effect" as discussed by Sontag?

(see the answer key)

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