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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Dramatic.
(b) Useful.
(c) Dark.
(d) Important.

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Color.
(b) Value.
(c) Reality.
(d) Scale.

3. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.
(a) Money.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Looking at.
(d) Worship.

4. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.
(a) Power.
(b) Attention.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Pity.

5. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.
(a) Concord.
(b) Truth.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Accord.

6. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Joy.
(c) Denial.
(d) Permission.

7. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.
(a) Sensitivities.
(b) Inhibitions.
(c) Trust.
(d) Understanding.

8. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Inspection.
(b) Worth.
(c) Pity.
(d) Deity.

9. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.
(a) Heterogeneous.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Homogeneous.
(d) Hand-holding.

10. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Trivial.
(b) Forest.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Darkness.

11. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Evidence.
(c) Power.
(d) Diction.

12. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Dated.
(c) Anecdotal.
(d) Irrational.

13. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Steichen.
(b) Stieglitz.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Arbus.

14. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Mothers.
(b) Pets.
(c) Children.
(d) Cars.

15. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."
(a) Blood.
(b) Lace.
(c) Glitter.
(d) A ribbon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?

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

4. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.

5. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

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