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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 picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of All.
(b) Family of One.
(c) Family of the Universal.
(d) Family of Man.

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Illegal.
(b) Silly.
(c) Darkened.
(d) Untrained.

3. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1935.

4. Photography freed ____________ from the reproductive arts, according to Sontag's writing in this book.
(a) Stage plays.
(b) Painting.
(c) Carving.
(d) Sculpting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ often reveal beauty that is not normally seen, according to Sontag in this chapter.

2. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

3. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

4. What art has had to struggle to become a high art, though others have not had to work as hard to get to that title?

5. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

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