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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?
(a) A self portrait.
(b) A mirror.
(c) An image of a girl serving milk.
(d) The grave of his wife.

2. Who painted "The Morning Session"?
(a) Matisse.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Scarry.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

3. What does Scarry say the metaphysical aspect of beauty validates?
(a) Objects.
(b) The arts.
(c) Objectification.
(d) People.

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

5. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?
(a) They are hard on the heart.
(b) They show use ourselves.
(c) They confuse the ideas of beauty.
(d) All of these.

6. What kind of tree did Matisse love?
(a) Palm.
(b) Sycamore.
(c) Maple.
(d) Oak.

7. Why was Voroccio important to Da Vinci?
(a) He had an affair with Da Vinci.
(b) He tutored under Da Vinci.
(c) He was a father figure to Da Vinci.
(d) He inspired Da Vinci.

8. Who wrote poems about mistakes in beauty?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Plato.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

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

11. What does Scarry say is our major limitation in seeing beauty?
(a) We have to start from the beginning.
(b) We do not remember past lives.
(c) We rely on our sight.
(d) We are burdened with physical needs.

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

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

14. What led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?
(a) The anger of not being beautiful.
(b) The pride of creating beauty.
(c) The effects of beauty on him.
(d) The need to be near beauty.

15. What kind of tree did Matisse always hate?
(a) Palm.
(b) Oak.
(c) Maple.
(d) Sycamore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changed in Scarry's vision when she found beauty in a certain tree?

2. Where did Scarry find a motif?

3. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?

4. What kind of approach does Scarry say feminism takes?

5. What is Scarry's second conclusion about Odysseus's visit?

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