Regarding the Pain of Others Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Sontag argues that which of the following effects keeps the television viewer's attention "light", "mobile" and fairly "indifferent" to the images on the screen? (from Chapter 8)

Advertising.

Overload.

Media coverage.

Image-glut.

2.

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

The presence of journalists was an invasion of the executed man's privacy.

The photographer arranged the execution in advance.

The shooting would not have occurred in the absence of journalists to record it.

General Loan was unaware of the cameras at the time of the execution.

3.

Which of the following produced a documentary about a "deranged" Pacific war veteran who drives the streets of Tokyo speaking against Japanese war crimes? (from Chapter 10)

Jeff Wall.

Larisa Shepitko.

Theodore Dreiser.

Kazuo Hara.

4.

Which of the following is an account of a man's last hours before his execution at the guillotine? (from Chapter 10)

"The Green Mile."

"The Ascent."

"The Hours."

"The Execution of Troppmann."

5.

Sontag suggests that to make peace is to do which of the following? (from Chapter 9)

Forget.

Understand.

Remember.

Forgive.

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