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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Plato's Cave.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Statues.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Objects.
(d) Scarecrows.

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

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

5. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.
(a) God.
(b) The ether.
(c) The world.
(d) True desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.

2. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.

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

4. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

5. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

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