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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Restrictions on media coverage of the British campaign in the Falklands was notable for which of the following reasons?
(a) They were stricter than any censorship since the Crimean War.
(b) They opened the event to full-scale television coverage.
(c) They allowed only government-sponsored journalists.
(d) They prohibited foreign journalists from covering the story.

2. Which of the following poets expressed concerns about the effect of national-scale events on human sensibility in 1800?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Pound.
(d) Eliot.

3. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?
(a) The Spanish Civil War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Boer War.

4. Who took the infamous image of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong suspect in the street?
(a) Roger Fenton.
(b) Timothy O'Sullivan.
(c) Eddie Adams.
(d) Roger Capa.

5. Sontag corrects her earlier argument by claiming that which of the following is eroded by modern media saturation?
(a) Sense of urgency.
(b) Human empathy.
(c) Sense of reality.
(d) Human decency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag claims that "good taste" is always _________ when invoked by institutions.

2. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?

3. U.S. bombing of Afghanistan was conducted remotely from which of the following locations?

4. At the end of World War II, a group of journalists formed Magnum Photo Agency. Which of the following photographers was not among them?

5. Sontag suggests that the camera always "kept company with _________".

(see the answer key)

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