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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?
(a) Culture.
(b) Status.
(c) Gender.
(d) Age.

2. Sontag argues that witnessing war atrocities from afar is a unique experience characteristic of:
(a) Western countries.
(b) The early 19th century.
(c) Eastern countries.
(d) The modern world.

3. Which nation's army was represented in Wall's photograph?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Soviet Union.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) United States.

4. Sontag notes that although museums remembering atrocities are common practice, there is no museum in the United States dedicated to which of the following atrocities?
(a) The German Holocaust.
(b) The American slave trade.
(c) The massacre of the Native Americans.
(d) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

5. "Without Sanctuary" was a book of photographs taken of which of the following atrocities?
(a) The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
(b) Lynchings of black Americans in the 1930s.
(c) Japanese internment in the U.S.
(d) The Rwanda atrocities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag discusses "Here Is New York," a photography exhibit depicting September 11th. Whom did the organizers ask to contribute photographs?

2. What sentiment concludes the book?

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

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

5. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?

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