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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag claims that American journalists have always followed one tacit prohibition. What have American journalists always avoided?
(a) Printing images of suffering women and children.
(b) Printing images of mass American casualties.
(c) Printing images of American-committed war crimes.
(d) Printing images of the faces of American dead.

2. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:
(a) Inform the public of the event.
(b) Increase sensitivity toward Middle-Eastern Americans.
(c) Increase support for military action.
(d) Promote messages of peace and pacificism.

3. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:
(a) Emotional struggles of the victims.
(b) Tension between combatants.
(c) Complicated circumstances, causes and impact of the event.
(d) Essence of the experience.

4. Sontag suggests that the camera always "kept company with _________".
(a) Life.
(b) Art.
(c) Death.
(d) War.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sontag argues that which of the following effects keeps the television viewer's attention "light", "mobile" and fairly "indifferent" to the images on the screen?

3. Neither compassion nor moral indignation would be enough to do which of the following?

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

5. Sontag claims in Chapter 6 that, despite historical evidence to the contrary, we have come to see which of the following as the natural state of being?

(see the answer key)

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