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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Measurment.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Work.

2. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Real objects.
(b) Colors.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Faith.

3. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Picarism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Truthism.

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Superficial distinctions.
(b) Photography.
(c) Criticisms.
(d) Beauty.

5. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Weird.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Deformed.
(d) Exactly the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

2. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.

3. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

4. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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

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