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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. What is NOT one of the things that the Chinese expect from photography, which can cause a disconnect?
(a) Fast camera motion.
(b) Logical transitions.
(c) Healthy topics.
(d) Posed scenes.

2. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.
(a) Banal.
(b) Funny.
(c) Violent.
(d) Exciting.

3. Even though photographs are generally consistent, _________ tastes in photography exist and change over time.
(a) Public.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Hotel.
(d) Critic.

4. Chinese tastes favor well-______________ presentations within photography, according to the book.
(a) Celebrated.
(b) Centered.
(c) Honored.
(d) Discussed.

5. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?
(a) Assembly line.
(b) Truth telling.
(c) High art.
(d) Forgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within photography have also been loosely organized __________, though not as strong as painting has had.

2. The overall discussion in this chapter is that on some level, in photography, images are or supersede __________.

3. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

4. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.

5. The collection of photographs is carried to the extreme in ____________, where these images are horded.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do some theories speculate that photography allows the artist to capture when they are taking the photograph?

2. What does this chapter seem to believe the current definition of modern society is in relation to images and things?

3. What do photographs do to reality, according to this final chapter of the book as written by Sontag?

4. What do some primitive tribes think about the idea of taking pictures of other people, according to this chapter?

5. Why is a photograph of an object a more reliable way of looking at an object, according to the text in this chapter?

6. What did the film Chung Kuo include that helped to present an accurate, though not flattering, picture of Chinese life?

7. What do the Chinese tastes prefer to see in their films, which made the Italian director a poor choice for the documentary on Chinese life?

8. What do most claim about the intentions of photography, according to the long essays in this chapter?

9. In 1839, why was photography briefly attacked by those in society, according to the history lessons of this chapter?

10. What discussion does false photography illuminate in regards to the essential division in photography?

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