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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Nihilist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Surrealist.

2. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?
(a) European.
(b) South American.
(c) African.
(d) American.

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A shape.
(b) A sense.
(c) A word.
(d) A picture.

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

5. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.
(a) Work.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Measurment.
(d) Boredom.

6. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) The underworld.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Criminal activity.
(d) Children.

7. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.
(a) Peace.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Commonality.

8. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Superficial distinctions.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Photography.
(d) Criticisms.

9. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Social abjection.
(b) Paper.
(c) Nature.
(d) People.

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

11. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Animals.
(b) Class.
(c) Society.
(d) Books.

12. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.
(a) Fine.
(b) Mimetic.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Universal.

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

14. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.
(a) Honest.
(b) Scattered.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Universal.

15. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Service Association.
(b) Farm Security Administration.
(c) Farm Settler Administration.
(d) Farm Service Administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?

2. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

3. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.

4. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

5. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

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