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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Image-World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag says that some artists ___________ for the express purpose of having it photographed.
(a) Sculpt in bronze and plaster.
(b) Use cameras.
(c) Create their work.
(d) Go back to school.

2. __________ is difficult, tedious, and performed by skilled experts, according to Sontag in this book.
(a) Photography.
(b) Carving.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Painting.

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

4. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Common.
(c) Lying.
(d) Darker.

5. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Watery.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Just.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1839, photography was briefly attacked as something ___________ and disgraceful, according to the book.

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

3. Many tribes view the act of taking pictures of something or of someone as ______________.

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

5. Cartier-Bresson, in the introduction of his book, justified his unwillingness to use _________ by citing technical limitations.

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