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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. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Exactly the same.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Weird.
(d) Deformed.

2. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Deformed.
(b) Insane.
(c) Lepers.
(d) Prostitutes.

3. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.
(a) Rules.
(b) Morals.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Understanding.

4. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Diction.
(c) Evidence.
(d) Power.

5. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.
(a) Arguments.
(b) Stories.
(c) Mementos.
(d) Artifacts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

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

3. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.

4. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Are people with children more or less likely to own a camera, according to Sontag's own findings?

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

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

4. Why is it unusual to include writing about Walt Whitman in a book about photography?

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

6. What kind of art does Sontag believe photography has become, according to the text in this chapter?

7. What did the Farm Service Administration effectively show about the power of photography?

8. What does Surrealism strive to do in society, much like the goals of photography in the world?

9. What did Edward Steichen photograph in order to show that objects aren't always as simple as they appear?

10. Why does Sontag believe that tourists always use cameras during their trips to new and exciting places?

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