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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In discussing the difference gender makes in perceptions of war, Sontag agrees with which of the following authors?
(a) Tyler Hicks.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Joyce Carol Oates.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

2. Which famous surrealist thinker does Sontag quote as saying "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be?"
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

3. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?
(a) Age.
(b) Status.
(c) Culture.
(d) Gender.

4. 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) "The face of war!"
(c) "War is ugly!"
(d) "The horror!"

5. Sontag notes that images of war most significantly influenced which of the following groups?
(a) Artists whose work centers on conscientious objection.
(b) Governing officials making war decisions.
(c) Those who had experienced war, and were suffering from post-traumatic stress.
(d) Those who had never experienced war first-hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Krieg dem Kriege contains images captioned in which four languages?

2. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:

3. The mass media bombarded viewers with shocking images because:

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

5. Sontag argues that Woolf's view, like many other "antiwar polemicists" is:

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