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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Deity.
(b) Worth.
(c) Inspection.
(d) Pity.

3. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) High income.
(b) Low income.
(c) Feral.
(d) Freak.

4. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Real objects.
(b) Colors.
(c) Faith.
(d) Dragons.

5. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.
(a) Universal.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Honest.
(d) Scattered.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

5. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

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