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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:
(a) Emerged in the arts across Europe after World War I.
(b) Produced peace.
(c) Was considered treasonous.
(d) Overcame the militarized frenzy of the war years.

2. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.
(b) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.
(c) Maxims, proverbs and songs.
(d) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.

3. Sontag argues that the photograph, unlike the written word, is:
(a) Subject to interpretation.
(b) Artistically inferior.
(c) Politically charged.
(d) Always objective.

4. Which antiwar book which shows images from German military archives does Sontag reference?
(a) Krieg dem Kriege!
(b) The Face of War.
(c) J'accuse.
(d) Three Guinneas.

5. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?
(a) Hugo Chavez.
(b) A wounded Taliban soldier.
(c) The destruction of the Twin Towers.
(d) Osama Bin Laden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?

2. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:

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

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

5. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?

(see the answer key)

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