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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some theorize that photography allows the artist to capture __________ during an off-guard moment.
(a) Goodness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reality.
(d) Evil.

2. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.
(a) Unrelated.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Easy.
(d) Unnecessary.

3. Photographs present the real, but it is a ________ real of acquisition via mechanical duplication, according to the chapter.
(a) Darker.
(b) Sham.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Weak.

4. Who invited Antonioni to make a film about the Chinese life and its culture?
(a) No one.
(b) United States government.
(c) Italian government.
(d) Chinese government.

5. What art has had to struggle to become a high art, though others have not had to work as hard to get to that title?
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Painting.
(c) Photography.
(d) Carving.

6. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.
(a) Family.
(b) Landscape.
(c) Portrait.
(d) Album.

7. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?
(a) Carving.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Painting.
(d) Stage plays.

8. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.
(a) Touches.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Memory.

9. In 1839, photography was briefly attacked as something ___________ and disgraceful, according to the book.
(a) Evil.
(b) Dense.
(c) Immoral.
(d) Unnatural.

10. By __________, photography became an acceptable part of modern day life, according to the book.
(a) 1839.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1800.

11. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Clean up.
(b) Understand.
(c) Document.
(d) Manufacture.

12. In later times, photography came to be viewed as an art, then as a high art, and today it is esteemed as a modern __________.
(a) Travesty.
(b) Young art.
(c) High art.
(d) Rich art.

13. The film that Antonioni produced about the life of the Chinese was not shown in China until _____________.
(a) 2005.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2004.

14. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.
(a) Values.
(b) Intentions.
(c) Subjects.
(d) Outcomes.

15. An audience cares about the subject being photographed, yet wants little to do with the _______________.
(a) Price.
(b) Frame.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Gallery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.

2. Photographs make ____________ safe and concrete, according to Sontag. Some prefer photographs to reality.

3. Many people fear being photographed because they fear the camera's ___________ of their looks.

4. Others believe that photography is purely _________ and entirely devoid of interpretation in a subjective sense.

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

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