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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heroism of Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Their food.
(b) Their days.
(c) Reality.
(d) Their families.

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

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

4. Photography enjoyed a boost when the public learned that photographs could be ______________.
(a) Digitized.
(b) Kept forever.
(c) Altered.
(d) Destroyed.

5. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Retouching.
(b) Tampering.
(c) Altering.
(d) Burning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.

2. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.

3. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

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

5. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

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