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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1912.
2. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?
(a) Images depicting gory battle scenes.
(b) Images depicting intimate climaxes.
(c) Images depicting everyday life.
(d) Images depicting spontaneous events.
3. Sontag describes the way people experienced televised images of war in their own homes as which of the following?
(a) Tele-intimacy.
(b) Mediated intimacy.
(c) Comfortable distance.
(d) Diplomatic distance.
4. According to Sontag, war journalism first developed during which of the following two wars?
(a) World War II and the Vietnam War.
(b) The American Revolution and the American Civil War.
(c) World War I and World War II.
(d) The Crimean War and the American Civil War.
5. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:
(a) Failure of empathy and imagination.
(b) Failure of wealth.
(c) Failure of ignorance.
(d) Failure to behave humanely.
Short Answer Questions
1. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
2. Sontag lists many effects of photographs depicting war victims. Which of the following was not one of the effects she lists?
3. Noting the long history of the "iconography of suffering," Sontag lists three types of art which depict incredible agony. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
4. Photographic representations of the Vietnam War was essential to promoting:
5. Which Virginia Woolf book does Sontag discuss in detail?
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