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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Betrayed.
(d) Comfortable.
2. Which one of these is one of the errors in beauty listed in this book?
(a) The self indulgence of it.
(b) Attributes being unevenly noted.
(c) All the abuse it causes.
(d) The variety of perspectives.
3. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?
(a) It has continual creation.
(b) It stops people from settling for ugliness.
(c) It teaches other to be lovely.
(d) It brings out the inner beauty.
4. What kind of approach does Scarry say feminism takes?
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Religious.
(c) Generational.
(d) Political.
5. What was Proust's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Writer.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Preacher.
6. Who wrote poems about mistakes in beauty?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Plato.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) John Donne.
7. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?
(a) Political.
(b) Religious.
(c) Theoretical.
(d) Generational.
8. What changed in Scarry's vision when she found beauty in a certain tree?
(a) She saw the symbolism in all living things.
(b) She saw beauty in other trees.
(c) All of these.
(d) She saw patterns of the tree in other paintings.
9. Where did Scarry find a motif?
(a) In beauty.
(b) In her taste.
(c) In art.
(d) In music.
10. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?
(a) All of these.
(b) They are hard on the heart.
(c) They show use ourselves.
(d) They confuse the ideas of beauty.
11. What kind of tree did Matisse always hate?
(a) Sycamore.
(b) Palm.
(c) Maple.
(d) Oak.
12. When was "The Morning Session" painted?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1924.
13. What kind of limitation does Scarry say keeps most people from seeing beauty?
(a) Religious.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Mental.
(d) Physical.
14. What does Scarry say validates the existence of some things?
(a) Its affect on other things.
(b) Its place in history.
(c) Its reputation.
(d) Its beauty.
15. What shocked Scarry about the bird in the tree?
(a) It was scary.
(b) It was larger than life.
(c) It was beautiful.
(d) It was not how she thought it would be.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Scarry prove her ideas about beauty?
2. Where does Scarry look for beauty?
3. Where did Matisse do most of his work?
4. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?
5. What replaces the paint brush for part of The Morning Session?
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