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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Gender.
(d) Culture.

2. Sontag describes a famous photograph from the Spanish Civil War in which two things occur simultaneously. What are those two things?
(a) The photograph was snapped and the soldier was hit by a bullet.
(b) A shot was fired and a soldier fell.
(c) A soldier was shot and the commander surrendered.
(d) A boy died and a helicopter landed.

3. According to Sontag, why do images of atrocities fail to convey a singular, universal message?
(a) They are inappropriate for mass publication.
(b) They require context and explanation.
(c) They inspire only disgust.
(d) They are too graphic.

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

5. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:
(a) Images can be staged or manipulated.
(b) Anyone can photograph an event.
(c) Newspapers and magazines caption the images.
(d) Photojournalists are unreliable.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sontag, war journalism first developed during which of the following two wars?

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

3. Sontag lists many effects of photographs depicting war victims. Which of the following was not one of the effects she lists?

4. The protagonist of J'Accuse, the 1938 anti-war film, cries out which of the following in German and in English?

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

(see the answer key)

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