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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Scarry say brings about equality in society?
(a) Women being like men.
(b) Women speaking out.
(c) Beauty veing recognized.
(d) Men being like women.

2. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Betrayed.
(d) Afraid.

3. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?
(a) A self portrait.
(b) An image of a girl serving milk.
(c) The grave of his wife.
(d) A mirror.

4. What was Matisse's occupation?
(a) Painter.
(b) Poet.
(c) Professor.
(d) Actor.

5. What does Scarry say is the first form of art replication?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Touch.
(c) Vision.
(d) Image.

6. What struck Odysseus first about the person he visited?
(a) Her nudity.
(b) Her gentility.
(c) Her strength.
(d) Her beauty.

7. What led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?
(a) The pride of creating beauty.
(b) The need to be near beauty.
(c) The anger of not being beautiful.
(d) The effects of beauty on him.

8. What shocked Scarry about the bird in the tree?
(a) It was scary.
(b) It was not how she thought it would be.
(c) It was larger than life.
(d) It was beautiful.

9. What kind of tree did Matisse love?
(a) Maple.
(b) Oak.
(c) Palm.
(d) Sycamore.

10. What does Scarry say has an immortal reach?
(a) Anger.
(b) Memory.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

11. How many times was Odyessus saved by beauty?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) Twice.
(c) Once.
(d) Three.

12. Which of these writers is NOT cited in the first half of this book?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Homer.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Plato.

13. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?
(a) Generational.
(b) Theoretical.
(c) Religious.
(d) Political.

14. What kind of tree did Matisse always hate?
(a) Maple.
(b) Sycamore.
(c) Palm.
(d) Oak.

15. What does Matisse say should increase beauty in strange things?
(a) Happy memories.
(b) Love.
(c) Agreeable opinions.
(d) Cultural differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?

2. What is the title of the second section of this book?

3. How did Da Vinci create beauty?

4. When does Scarry say beauty is not sacred?

5. What does Scarry say is our major limitation in seeing beauty?

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