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

2. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Walt.
(b) Joe.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Phillip.

3. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Mimetic.
(b) Sharp.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Proper.

4. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Picarism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Truthism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

2. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

3. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.

4. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.

5. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.

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