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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Photographic Evangels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Scary.
(b) Normal.
(c) Freaks.
(d) Deadly.

2. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Permission.
(b) Enjoyment.
(c) Naughtiness.
(d) Fetishism.

3. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.
(a) Younger.
(b) Rich.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Democratizing.

4. As a new art, photography constantly undergoes constant __________ as it must always be innovative.
(a) Technological advances.
(b) Revision.
(c) Exposure.
(d) Framing.

5. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.
(a) Honest.
(b) True.
(c) Photographed.
(d) Necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. In later times, photography came to be viewed as an art, then as a high art, and today it is esteemed as a modern __________.

2. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

3. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

4. _____________ is easy, rapid, and can be performed by just about anyone, according to Sontag.

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?

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