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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Common.
(b) Darker.
(c) Lying.
(d) Wealthy.

2. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Individual.
(b) Image.
(c) Word.
(d) Color.

3. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) Power trip.
(b) Wild ride.
(c) Death trip.
(d) True ego.

4. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Blackness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shadows.
(d) White.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

3. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?

4. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

5. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

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