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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Recalling traditions of the 16th and 17th century, Sontag claims that printing images of dark-skinned people in moments of suffering or pain is part of a long tradition of which of the following?
(a) Protesting oppressive treatment of the colonized or dominated.
(b) Displaying the bodies of the colonized or dominated.
(c) Drumming up feelings of superiority over the colonized or dominated.
(d) Creating interest in the human rights violations committed against the colonized or dominated.

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

3. Sontag suggests that a catastrophic event that is experienced in real life. . .
(a) "causes greater pain than one that is experienced on television."
(b) "does not often seem to be happening."
(c) "will often seem eerily like its representation."
(d) "induces more stress when it is televised."

4. Sontag criticizes American portrayals of U.S. military strategy, saying that war museums do not emphasize which of the following?
(a) U.S. use of disproportionate fire power.
(b) The victims of U.S. military force.
(c) War crimes committed by United States officers.
(d) U.S. defeat in battle.

5. The West had a long tradition of viewing war as which of the following?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Atrocity.
(c) Honorable.
(d) Spectacle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag argues that many people thought that which of the following makes war seem "real"?

2. What sentiment concludes the book?

3. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?

4. Images of the Gulf War were filtered to portray the "techno war." The public was exposed to only those images that portrayed which of the following sentiments?

5. Sontag lists three impulses which may be satisfied by viewing images of atrocities. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

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