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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Value.
(b) Scale.
(c) Reality.
(d) Color.

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Priests.

3. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Dark corners.
(c) Rich.
(d) Ignored.

4. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Dated.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Anecdotal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

4. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

5. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

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