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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 beautiful does NOT always include?
(a) The truth.
(b) The future.
(c) The brave.
(d) The right.
2. What kind of book is this?
(a) Hypnotical.
(b) Historical.
(c) Self Help.
(d) Philosophical.
3. What is the title of the second section of this book?
(a) "Beauty Prompts a Battle Within."
(b) "Beauty Prompts Some Inner Workings."
(c) "Beauty Prompts Praise of Itself."
(d) "Beauty Prompts a Copy of Itself."
4. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?
(a) To show she is write.
(b) To make life happier.
(c) To make the world better.
(d) All of these.
5. What led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?
(a) The need to be near beauty.
(b) The effects of beauty on him.
(c) The anger of not being beautiful.
(d) The pride of creating beauty.
6. What kind of writing from Danto is cited in this book?
(a) A couplet.
(b) A song.
(c) A sonnet.
(d) An anthem.
7. Why did Matisse have the fear she did?
(a) She had ignored subtle beauties.
(b) She saw a rose die.
(c) She watched ivy vines slowly kill a tree.
(d) She heard someone praise a shell she thought was ugly.
8. How did Scarry feel about Proust's idea of where the most beauty could be found?
(a) She agrees.
(b) She thinks it is a cowardly description.
(c) She disagrees.
(d) She sees the merit, but thinks it is too bold.
9. What object did Matisse write about?
(a) Palm fronds.
(b) Roses.
(c) Ivy vines.
(d) Sea shells.
10. What did Plato say really caused children?
(a) The banal need for beauty.
(b) The act of beauty replicating itself.
(c) The repercussions of pride.
(d) The desire of men to see themselves.
11. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?
(a) Pride.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Anonymity.
(d) Replication.
12. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?
(a) Generational.
(b) Political.
(c) Religious.
(d) Theoretical.
13. Scarry says there is no end to ______________for beauty.
(a) The need.
(b) The place.
(c) The desire.
(d) All of these.
14. How did Da Vinci create beauty?
(a) He painted.
(b) All of these.
(c) He sketched.
(d) He was an inventor.
15. What kind of moment does Scarry say precedes most errors?
(a) A moment of confusion.
(b) A moment of clarity.
(c) A moment of decision.
(d) A moment of revelation.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?
2. Why was Voroccio important to Da Vinci?
3. Who wrote about Odysseus?
4. Where did Scarry find a motif?
5. What does Matisse say should increase beauty in strange things?
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