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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Photographic Evangels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs are also displayed in ___________ as paintings are for others to see and to experience.
(a) Schools.
(b) Galleries.
(c) Banks.
(d) Photo albums.

2. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Nature.
(b) Social abjection.
(c) Paper.
(d) People.

3. Sontag says that some artists ___________ for the express purpose of having it photographed.
(a) Create their work.
(b) Go back to school.
(c) Use cameras.
(d) Sculpt in bronze and plaster.

4. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Scary.
(b) Freaks.
(c) Normal.
(d) Deadly.

5. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Chemical engineer.
(b) Poet.
(c) President.
(d) Novelist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?

2. The real problem with bringing ________ photographs into mainstream is a procedure which contradicts the nature of most photographs.

3. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

4. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

5. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

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