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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In interpreting photographs, Sontag claims that everyone approaches the image as which of the following?
(a) A literalist.
(b) An idealist.
(c) A critic.
(d) A realist.

2. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?
(a) The faces of the dead and dying from "exotic" places are more likely to be shown.
(b) American news media applies the same standards of decency to all victims, regardless of country of origin.
(c) American journalism favors American subjects, often overlooking people in "remote" places.
(d) FCC laws prohibit the printing of images including the faces of war victims.

3. In transforming an event or person into something that can be owned, photographs:
(a) Objectify.
(b) Elevate.
(c) Commoditize.
(d) Degrade.

4. Sontag lists three impulses which may be satisfied by viewing images of atrocities. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
(a) "To force oneself to face taboo".
(b) "To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible".
(c) "To steel oneself against weakness".
(d) "To make onself more numb".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:

2. 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?

3. Sontag suggests that Plato anticipated which of the following psychological models?

4. Events enter the collective memory, not by a natural process of remembering but by:

5. In order to take pleasure in suffering, Sontag argues that one must necessarily have which of the following?

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