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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Security Administration.
(b) Farm Service Association.
(c) Farm Service Administration.
(d) Farm Settler Administration.

2. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Peace.
(c) Joy.
(d) Understanding.

3. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.
(a) Money.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Worship.
(d) Looking at.

4. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Stieglitz.
(b) Steichen.
(c) Arbus.
(d) Whitman.

5. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.
(a) God.
(b) True desire.
(c) The world.
(d) The ether.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

2. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?

3. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.

4. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

5. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.

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