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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Plato say really caused children?
(a) The desire of men to see themselves.
(b) The repercussions of pride.
(c) The banal need for beauty.
(d) The act of beauty replicating itself.

2. 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) She saw patterns of the tree in other paintings.
(d) All of these.

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

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

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

6. To what kind of craving does Scarry compare beauty?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Sex.

7. What kind of limitation does Scarry say keeps most people from seeing beauty?
(a) Physical.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Religious.
(d) Mental.

8. What does Scarry say beautiful does NOT always include?
(a) The truth.
(b) The right.
(c) The future.
(d) The brave.

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

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

11. Which of these writers is NOT cited in the first half of this book?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) Plato.
(d) Homer.

12. Where did Matisse do most of his work?
(a) A stage.
(b) Rooftops.
(c) The studio.
(d) A bathroom.

13. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?
(a) Caring about them.
(b) Judging them.
(c) Using them.
(d) Scorning them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say is the first form of art replication?

2. Where does Scarry look for beauty?

3. What kind of book is this?

4. How many times was Odyessus saved by beauty?

5. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?

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