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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photography enjoyed a boost when the public learned that photographs could be ______________.
(a) Kept forever.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Digitized.
(d) Altered.

2. Some champion total self ____________ for the photographer in order to capture subjects in the way that makes sense for an audience.
(a) Control.
(b) Aggrandizement.
(c) Effacement.
(d) Understanding.

3. Cartier-Bresson, in the introduction of his book, justified his unwillingness to use _________ by citing technical limitations.
(a) Film.
(b) Tripods.
(c) Color.
(d) Digital cameras.

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

5. Most - nearly all - __________ images are photographs, according to Sontag's findings.
(a) Great.
(b) Effective.
(c) Surrealistic.
(d) Authoritative.

6. The question becomes whether photography is a ___________ process of documentation via machine, or not.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Honored.
(d) Automatic.

7. Photographs cannot ___________ of something and are therefore obviously reproductive or mimetic.
(a) Simply be.
(b) Not be.
(c) Ignore the rules.
(d) Understand the truth.

8. Sontag seems stereotype inscrutable Chinese values, smacking of the anti-Chinese ____________ in her time.
(a) Feelings.
(b) Movement.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Understanding.

9. The main question becomes whether photography is a high art or if it is merely a __________ reproduction by a machine.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Documentary.
(c) Surrealistic.
(d) Real.

10. The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag.
(a) Expansion.
(b) Art.
(c) Society.
(d) Literature.

11. Just like painting and other forms of art, photography has had various ____________.
(a) Movements.
(b) Innovations.
(c) Authors.
(d) Critics.

12. The collection of photographs is carried to the extreme in ____________, where these images are horded.
(a) Pornography.
(b) Tourism.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Families.

13. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.
(a) Cutting edge.
(b) Fads.
(c) Truths.
(d) Worthless.

14. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.
(a) Over exposure.
(b) Subjects.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Colors.

15. The overall discussion in this chapter is that on some level, in photography, images are or supersede __________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) God.
(d) Darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film that Antonioni produced about the life of the Chinese was not shown in China until _____________.

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

3. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.

4. Although one cannot possess all of _____________, one can possess images.

5. Chinese tastes favor well-______________ presentations within photography, according to the book.

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