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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Baroque writers.
(b) Contemporary writers.
(c) Mid-Century writers.
(d) Classic philosophers.

2. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?
(a) Religious complaints.
(b) Past complaints.
(c) Jealous complaints.
(d) Political complaints.

3. What does Scarry like about the term with the dual meaning?
(a) It is always changing.
(b) It has symmetry.
(c) It leaves room for error.
(d) It proves her point.

4. How does a bad vase give value to something else?
(a) It doesn't detract from beauty.
(b) It provides opposition.
(c) It lowers the standards.
(d) It allows the maker practice.

5. What kind of pressure does beauty cause?
(a) Positive.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Distributive.
(d) Functional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say about the notions of those who wanted to banish beauty?

2. Beauty is compacted with ______________.

3. Who said that all things aspire to equality?

4. What did Scarry salute?

5. What is the third of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Scarry end this book?

2. What does Scarry say about critics of beauty?

3. What does Scarry say can never be harmful to humans, and why?

4. What does Scarry say about gardens?

5. What did Rilke salute with his words on beauty and justice?

6. What does Scarry say about beauty leading to urges?

7. What did Plato say about the beauty of one?

8. What does Scarry say most people want when they search for things?

9. Where does Scarry see the most vulnerability in beauty being admired?

10. What did Edmund Burke do to start the demotion of beauty?

(see the answer keys)

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