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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag argues that which of the following effects keeps the television viewer's attention "light", "mobile" and fairly "indifferent" to the images on the screen?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Media coverage.
(c) Image-glut.
(d) Overload.

2. The Brady war pictures were taken of which of the following wars?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) The Crimean War.

3. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?
(a) He staged many of the photographs to create more dramatic depictions of human agony.
(b) He profited greatly from the exhibition of the photographs while the subjects received nothing.
(c) He reprinted images of refugees without their consent, display a disregard for their rights.
(d) He generalized different social and political situations under the anonymous umbrella of suffering.

4. When Baudelaire expressed his concerns about the effects of the newspaper in 1860, which of the following was true?
(a) Newspapers had recently become more widely available to the public.
(b) Newspapers had begun to sensationalize headlines.
(c) Newspapers did NOT yet print images.
(d) Newspapers had begun printing images alongside the stories.

5. Georges Bataille, famous for his studies of the erotic, kept which of the following images on his desk?
(a) A painting of the bombing of Guernica.
(b) A photograph of the Chinese torture "the death of a hundred cuts".
(c) A famous pornographic image, taken in late19th century France.
(d) A photograph of the statue of David.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which work of literature does Sontag cite as evidence that war was once seen as part of a man's life?

2. In its early days, photography was thought to:

3. Sontag claims that Bataille could see extreme pain as a form of __________.

4. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?

5. Sarajevans were angered by a photography exhibit which featured photographs of their suffering alongside images of which other country's people?

(see the answer key)

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