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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) The underworld.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Children.
(d) Criminal activity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.

2. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

3. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

4. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.

5. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."

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