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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Diorama, tableaux and wax exhibits served which of the following purposes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Forms of entertainment.
(b) Forms of history-as-display.
(c) Forms of war protest.
(d) Forms of artistic expression.

2. Sontag claims that images of suffering in Africa send a double message. Which of the following best represents that message?
(a) Places like Africa always face horrors like this; therefore, intervention is a waste of resources.
(b) Suffering like this only happens in backward places like Africa; thus, America and other developed nations are clearly superior.
(c) Violence is abhorrent in any case; therefore, we must interfene to stop such atrocities.
(d) The suffering depicted in the photographs was inhumane and should be prevented; however, it is to be expected of a place like Africa.

3. At the time Sontag wrote the book, many felt what which of the following made atrocity photographs immoral?
(a) Context.
(b) Exploitation.
(c) Permanence.
(d) Abstractness.

4. How many soldiers did Wall's photograph depict?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) Thirteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?

2. According to Sontag, Wall's photograph may have been an updated version of which infamous image from the First World War?

3. In its early days, photography was thought to:

4. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:

5. Which of the following works does Sontag site as containing the first recognition of the human fascination with mutilated bodies?

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