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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heroism of Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Settler Administration.
(b) Farm Service Association.
(c) Farm Security Administration.
(d) Farm Service Administration.

2. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.
(a) Subjects.
(b) Colors.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Over exposure.

3. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?
(a) African.
(b) South American.
(c) American.
(d) European.

4. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.
(a) Horror.
(b) Music.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Real.

5. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.

3. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.

4. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

5. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?

(see the answer key)

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