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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Scarry find a motif?
(a) In art.
(b) In beauty.
(c) In her taste.
(d) In music.

2. Where did Proust see the most beauty?
(a) In ideas.
(b) In particulars.
(c) In generalities.
(d) In landscapes.

3. Scarry says there is no end to ______________for beauty.
(a) The place.
(b) The need.
(c) The desire.
(d) All of these.

4. What does Scarry say validates the existence of some things?
(a) Its reputation.
(b) Its affect on other things.
(c) Its place in history.
(d) Its beauty.

5. What fear did Matisse write about?
(a) She would never be beautiful.
(b) Others would never see her beauty.
(c) She had missed other beauties in life.
(d) She would die and lose her beauty.

6. What does Scarry say the general attitude about beauty indicates in society?
(a) The pliancy of consciousness.
(b) The worsening of morals.
(c) The need for religion.
(d) The strange directional challenges.

7. What is Scarry's third conclusion about Odysseus's visit?
(a) Beauty is life saving.
(b) Beauty is new.
(c) Beauty cannot always last.
(d) Beauty can be evil.

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

9. Why does Scarry say a certain tree loses its beauty?
(a) It symbolizes bad things.
(b) It doesn't belong everywhere.
(c) It has seasons.
(d) It gets old.

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

11. How did Scarry feel about Proust's idea of where the most beauty could be found?
(a) She agrees.
(b) She disagrees.
(c) She sees the merit, but thinks it is too bold.
(d) She thinks it is a cowardly description.

12. Why does Scarry think Matisse will reach more people than her?
(a) He was famous.
(b) He held grudges.
(c) He was an artist.
(d) He had children.

13. When did beauty in post colonialism make a huge entrance in studies?
(a) The 1960's.
(b) The 1990's.
(c) The 1970's.
(d) The 1980's.

14. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?
(a) Cultural differences.
(b) Heart ache.
(c) Past experiences.
(d) Things her father said.

15. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?
(a) Using them.
(b) Judging them.
(c) Caring about them.
(d) Scorning them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Matisse do most of his work?

2. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?

3. Where does Scarry look for beauty?

4. Who wrote about Odysseus?

5. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?

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