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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag discusses the subtitle of "Here is New York" in some detail. What was this subtitle?
(a) "A Nation in Shock."
(b) "September 11th, 2001."
(c) "A City Mourns."
(d) "A Democracy of Images."

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

3. Sontag references an agreement in which the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan came together to renounce war. What is the name of this agreement?
(a) The Non-Aggression Pact of 1937.
(b) The Treaty of Versailles.
(c) The Treaty of Brandenburg.
(d) Kellogg-Briad Pact of 1928.

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

5. Sontag argues that the most extensive kind of censorship is which of the following?
(a) The self-censorship of broadcast companies.
(b) Government censorship.
(c) The censorship implied by public sensibility.
(d) Military censorship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paraphrasing Woolf, Sontag states that the privileged class fails to respond to images of war with the appropriate pain. She describes this as a:

2. 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?

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

4. Sontag claims that Jacques Callot's 1633 painting, "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War" was unprecedented for which of the following reasons?

5. Fenton received directions from the War Office to do which of the following?

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