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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) Children.
(b) Reality.
(c) People.
(d) Nature.

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

3. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Individual.
(b) Image.
(c) Color.
(d) Word.

4. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Women.

5. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1839.

6. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.
(a) Normal.
(b) Moving.
(c) Still.
(d) Vapid.

7. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Poet.
(b) President.
(c) Chemical engineer.
(d) Novelist.

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

9. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Community.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Identity.
(d) Truth.

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

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. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Groups.
(c) Families.
(d) Individuals.

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

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

15. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?
(a) American.
(b) European.
(c) South American.
(d) African.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

3. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.

4. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.

5. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

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