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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) Everything.
(b) The world's darkness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) All humans.

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

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.
(a) Dark.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Disgusting.
(d) Irrelevant.

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

5. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Frozen in time.
(b) Death.
(c) Stationary.
(d) Confusing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

3. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

4. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

5. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the goal of the Farm Service Administration photographic project in 1935 as described in this chapter?

2. How does surrealism look at wealth, which is the same way that photography seems to look at wealth?

3. What did Whitman think about those things which are often deemed trivial and those things considered to be real?

4. What did Steichen thus do with his photographs in terms of creating importance with the subject of the picture?

5. How does photography make the photographer incapable of intervening in a situation?

6. Why did photography come to be seen as a type of copulation with the material world?

7. On what other artistic areas does photography impose standards according to Sontag in this chapter?

8. What do photographs of the same subject over the course of many years show about this person or this item?

9. What has photography established, according to Sontag in this chapter in relation to how objects are seen?

10. How was "Family of Man" an opposite representation of what Whitman was trying to saw about humanity?

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