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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?
(a) All of these.
(b) Unfair.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Incoherent.
2. Who said that all things aspire to equality?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Aristortle.
(d) Shakespeare.
3. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?
(a) Editor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Motivational Speaker.
4. Those who wanted to banish beauty wanted to keep beauty out of ___________.
(a) Academic Conversations.
(b) Political Campaigns.
(c) Religious Practices.
(d) Main stream media.
5. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?
(a) The sublime.
(b) The Utopia.
(c) The equality.
(d) The caste system.
6. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?
(a) Interior life.
(b) Existential life.
(c) Exterior life.
(d) Spiritual life.
7. Who says that beauty removes us from our bodies?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Sorrin.
(c) Scarry.
(d) Shakespeare.
8. What implications are investigated in the section on being fair?
(a) Moral implications.
(b) Legal implication.
(c) Religious implications.
(d) None of these.
9. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?
(a) Involuntary.
(b) Active.
(c) Manipulated.
(d) Passive.
10. How many kinds of perception does Scarry talk about in this book?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.
11. What realm does beauty live in now according to Scarry?
(a) The Imaginative.
(b) The Literary.
(c) The Dream.
(d) The Real.
12. What is uneven in the world?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Education.
(d) All of these.
13. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Erete.
(b) Efete.
(c) Ekete.
(d) Eshete.
14. Who wanted to banish beauty in the 20th Century?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Critics.
(c) Priests.
(d) Ugly people.
15. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?
(a) People's gaze on it.
(b) People's attention on it.
(c) People's striving for it.
(d) All of these.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?
2. What part of life did the demotion of beauty affect the most?
3. What started the demotion of beauty?
4. What is a God impervious to according to Scarry?
5. What does Scarry say confirms the life of gardens?
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