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

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

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

4. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A shape.
(b) A word.
(c) A sense.
(d) A picture.

5. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Children.
(b) Pets.
(c) Cars.
(d) Mothers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

5. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

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