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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 is the general attitude toward beauty?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It is productive.
(c) It causes both harm and damage.
(d) It goes back and forth.

2. What kind of error does Scarry say is not an error of beauty?
(a) Intellectual errors.
(b) Visual errors.
(c) Religious error.
(d) Philosophical errors.

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

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

5. How did Da Vinci create beauty?
(a) He painted.
(b) He sketched.
(c) He was an inventor.
(d) All of these.

6. Where did Scarry first see beauty in a certain tree?
(a) A dream.
(b) A book.
(c) A painting.
(d) A vacation.

7. How does Wittgenstein say Leonardo Da Vinci created pure beauty?
(a) He never sought for acclaim.
(b) He created what he wanted.
(c) He donated his profits.
(d) He copied others.

8. What kind of book is this?
(a) Historical.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Hypnotical.
(d) Self Help.

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

10. What does Scarry say Beauty's aim should be?
(a) To show truth.
(b) To combat evil.
(c) To tell the future.
(d) To improve society.

11. What kind of moment does Scarry say precedes most errors?
(a) A moment of revelation.
(b) A moment of confusion.
(c) A moment of clarity.
(d) A moment of decision.

12. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?
(a) To make the world better.
(b) To make life happier.
(c) To show she is write.
(d) All of these.

13. What is a motif?
(a) A theme.
(b) A way of expression.
(c) A repeated pattern.
(d) A kind of poem.

14. What does Scarry say marked works created imperfectly?
(a) The desire to attempt creation.
(b) The desire to reach perfection.
(c) The need for beauty.
(d) The need for impulses.

15. When was "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" created?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did beauty in post colonialism make a huge entrance in studies?

2. What kind of moment does Scarry say follows most errors?

3. What does Matisse say her preference in trees kept her from doing?

4. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?

5. What does Scarry say has an immortal reach?

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