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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. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?
(a) The Loyalty of Plato.
(b) Plato's Republic.
(c) Plato's Cave.
(d) The Republic of Plato.

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

3. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1839.
(d) 1818.

4. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Trivial.
(d) Forest.

5. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Permission.
(b) Joy.
(c) Encouragement.
(d) Denial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

2. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

3. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.

4. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

5. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

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