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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. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Laws.
(b) Rules.
(c) Morals.
(d) Ideas.

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Limitations.
(b) Value.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Flaws.

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

4. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Honest.
(b) Rich.
(c) Normal.
(d) Perfect.

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. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

2. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

3. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

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

5. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

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