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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which work of literature does Sontag cite as evidence that war was once seen as part of a man's life?
(a) The Republic.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) The Aeneid.
(d) The Iliad.

2. Which of the following poets expressed concerns about the effect of national-scale events on human sensibility in 1800?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Pound.
(d) Wordsworth.

3. Sontag notes that although museums remembering atrocities are common practice, there is no museum in the United States dedicated to which of the following atrocities?
(a) The American slave trade.
(b) The German Holocaust.
(c) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(d) The massacre of the Native Americans.

4. Who took the infamous image of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong suspect in the street?
(a) Eddie Adams.
(b) Roger Fenton.
(c) Roger Capa.
(d) Timothy O'Sullivan.

5. Sontag argues that journalists who photograph war are often received with resistance. She suggests that the desire to capture images of suffering is often described in which of the following ways?
(a) Cruel and unusual.
(b) Cruel and torturous.
(c) Vulgar and low.
(d) Exploitative and perverse.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Brady war pictures were taken of which of the following wars?

2. Using the example of Ground Zero, Sontag argues that photographs have the power to do which of the following to their subject?

3. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?

4. According to Sontag, if one feels sympathy for the victims of suffering, it helps ensure that one cannot be ___________.

5. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?

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