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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ is a modern development in camera use.
(a) Beautifying.
(b) Complicating.
(c) Simplifying.
(d) Uglifying.

2. Sontag notes that although museums remembering atrocities are common practice, there is no museum in the United States dedicated to which of the following atrocities?
(a) The American slave trade.
(b) The massacre of the Native Americans.
(c) The German Holocaust.
(d) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

3. Neither compassion nor moral indignation would be enough to do which of the following?
(a) Stop suffering.
(b) End violence.
(c) Inspire change.
(d) Motivate action.

4. Sontag cites the Japanese narrative "Chushingura" in which the protagonist stops to appreciate the beauty of cherry blossoms one last time before committing ritual suicide as an example of which kind of shocking art?
(a) The type which is often underestimated for its emotional impact.
(b) The type which is only relative to a particular culture, and thus has little effect on outsiders.
(c) The type which is perennially performed, but which achieves less of a reaction with each performance.
(d) The type which, through the narrative form of pathos, continually induces emotional reactions.

5. The protagonist of J'Accuse, the 1938 anti-war film, cries out which of the following in German and in English?
(a) "Your sacrifices were in vain!"
(b) "War is ugly!"
(c) "The face of war!"
(d) "The horror!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?

2. Events enter the collective memory, not by a natural process of remembering but by:

3. Sontag cites one of her earlier books published in 1977. Which of the following is it?

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?

5. Recalling traditions of the 16th and 17th century, Sontag claims that printing images of dark-skinned people in moments of suffering or pain is part of a long tradition of which of the following?

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