On Photography Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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On Photography Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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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. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.
(a) Hand-holding.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Homogeneous.
(d) Heterogeneous.

2. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) Children.
(b) The underworld.
(c) Criminal activity.
(d) Masturbation.

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Dark.
(d) Disgusting.

4. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Power.
(b) Evidence.
(c) Measurement.
(d) Diction.

5. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of All.
(b) Family of Man.
(c) Family of One.
(d) Family of the Universal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

(see the answer key)

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