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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Roy Emerson Stryker.

3. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.
(a) Abject.
(b) Duly earned.
(c) True.
(d) Extreme.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.

3. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?

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

5. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

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