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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. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Weird.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Exactly the same.
(d) Unnatural.

2. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."
(a) Lace.
(b) Blood.
(c) Glitter.
(d) A ribbon.

3. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Insane.
(b) Lepers.
(c) Deformed.
(d) Prostitutes.

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

5. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) Permission.
(b) A desire.
(c) A need.
(d) A push.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

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

3. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.

4. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.

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

(see the answer key)

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