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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag suggests that it is still possible to "feel the pulse of Christian iconography" in much war photography. Which famous work of art does she suggest can be seen in W. Eugene Smith's photograph of the woman in Minamata cradling her child?
(a) Descent from the Cross.
(b) The Last Supper.
(c) The Pieta.
(d) The Passion of Christ.

2. Recounting a conversation with a Sarajevan woman, Sontag claims that when people are safe, they will feel which of the following toward atrocities committed abroad?
(a) Outrage.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Arousal.
(d) Delight.

3. Which work of literature does Sontag cite as evidence that war was once seen as part of a man's life?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) The Aeneid.
(c) The Republic.
(d) The Odyssey.

4. Sarajevans were angered by a photography exhibit which featured photographs of their suffering alongside images of which other country's people?
(a) Rhodesia.
(b) Somalia.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) Bosnia.

5. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?
(a) General Loan was unaware of the cameras at the time of the execution.
(b) The presence of journalists was an invasion of the executed man's privacy.
(c) The photographer arranged the execution in advance.
(d) The shooting would not have occurred in the absence of journalists to record it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag corrects her earlier argument by claiming that which of the following is eroded by modern media saturation?

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

3. Which of the following thinkers argued that people take "no small" delight in witnessing the suffering of others?

4. Which sense did the ancient Greeks consider superior?

5. Sontag lists many effects of photographs depicting war victims. Which of the following was not one of the effects she lists?

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