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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

A heated debate emerged when a weekly paper in Boston ran a video of which American journalist's execution in Pakistan? (from Chapter 5)

Daniel Pearl.

Don McCullin.

Eddie Adams.

Ariel Sharon.

2.

Sontag cites one of her earlier books published in 1977. Which of the following is it? (from Chapter 8)

"On Photography."

"Against Interpretation."

"Reborn."

"Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors."

3.

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.

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

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

The photographer arranged the execution in advance.

4.

For Sontag, the impression that there are more news of atrocity is probably which of the following? (from Chapter 9)

An accurate perception.

A regrettable truth.

An obnoxious overstatement.

An illusion.

5.

Which nation's army was represented in Wall's photograph? (from Chapter 10)

United States.

Afghanistan.

Soviet Union.

Iraq.

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