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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag argues that journalists who photograph war are often received with resistance. She suggests that the desire to capture images of suffering is often described in which of the following ways?
(a) Cruel and unusual.
(b) Vulgar and low.
(c) Exploitative and perverse.
(d) Cruel and torturous.

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

3. Which of the following phrases does Sontag use to refer to items which allow us to remember or think on death?
(a) Memento mori.
(b) Photography.
(c) Emblems of suffering.
(d) Memorabilia.

4. Which was the first war to be "covered" by professional war journalists at the front lines?
(a) World War I.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) World War II.

5. At the time Sontag wrote the book, many felt what which of the following made atrocity photographs immoral?
(a) Exploitation.
(b) Permanence.
(c) Abstractness.
(d) Context.

Short Answer 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?

2. Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (The Disasters of War) was a series of etchings published in 1863. Which of the following events does this series depict?

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

4. According to Sontag, if one feels sympathy for the victims of suffering, it helps ensure that one cannot be ___________.

5. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:

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