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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Matisse say should increase beauty in strange things?
(a) Happy memories.
(b) Love.
(c) Cultural differences.
(d) Agreeable opinions.

2. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?
(a) Pride.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Anonymity.
(d) Replication.

3. What does Matisse say her preference in trees kept her from doing?
(a) Believing others ideas.
(b) Accepting other cultures.
(c) Living a full life.
(d) Seeing beauty all around.

4. How does Scarry feel about Matisse's ideas?
(a) She is confused by them.
(b) She agrees with only parts of them.
(c) She agrees with her.
(d) She disagrees.

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

6. What was Proust's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Writer.

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

8. When was "The Morning Session" painted?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1934.

9. What replaces the paint brush for part of The Morning Session?
(a) Ink pens.
(b) Fingers.
(c) Palm fronds.
(d) Feathers.

10. What does Scarry say about things that were once ugly and then appear beautiful?
(a) They are worse than beautiful things going ugly.
(b) They can be pleasant surprises.
(c) They are revelatory moments.
(d) They show long hidden truth.

11. How did Scarry feel about Plato's ideas about beauty?
(a) She hates them.
(b) She is amused by them.
(c) She is confused by them.
(d) She agreed with them.

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

13. What form did Scarry study most in Matisse's work?
(a) Catalogues.
(b) Prints.
(c) Glices.
(d) Originals.

14. What was Matisse's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Professor.
(c) Actor.
(d) Painter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of book is this?

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

3. To what kind of craving does Scarry compare beauty?

4. What does Scarry say validates the existence of some things?

5. What does Scarry think brings about the most social good?

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