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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is every person seeking?
(a) Belonging.
(b) All of these.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

2. What was the profession of the friend of Scarry's who doubted her ideas?
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Professor.
(c) Politician.
(d) Writer.

3. What does Scarry say a bad vase lends value to?
(a) Good vases.
(b) The flowers in the vase.
(c) Other works of the maker.
(d) The maker of the vase.

4. Why do people seek out beauty?
(a) They want to become beautiful.
(b) They want to lighten their load.
(c) They want to add it to the world.
(d) They want to see if it exists.

5. Beauty is compacted with ______________.
(a) Quality.
(b) Justice.
(c) Tension.
(d) Equality.

6. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Motivating.
(b) Creating.
(c) Educating.
(d) Halting.

7. What started the demotion of beauty?
(a) The introduction of the sublime.
(b) The fall of Rome.
(c) The printing of the Bible.
(d) The change in power distribution.

8. What does beauty unseen improve?
(a) God's love.
(b) The mystery of the world.
(c) Our self interest.
(d) The possibilities of the next generation.

9. What did Andreas write about?
(a) Religion.
(b) History.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Fraternity.

10. Those who wanted to banish beauty wanted to keep beauty out of ___________.
(a) Main stream media.
(b) Political Campaigns.
(c) Religious Practices.
(d) Academic Conversations.

11. What is the normal distinction between beauty and deity?
(a) That which charms us and that which moves us.
(b) That which feels natural and that which feels foreign.
(c) That which motivates us and that which holds us back.
(d) That which compels us and that which calms us.

12. What does the vulnerable person who admires beauty risk?
(a) Giving up secrets.
(b) Becoming attached.
(c) Being rejected.
(d) Having no privacy.

13. What is a God impervious to according to Scarry?
(a) Harm from humans.
(b) Death.
(c) Ugliness.
(d) Fear.

14. Plato said the beauty of one could lead to ____________.
(a) The replication of beauty.
(b) The love between others.
(c) The creation of more.
(d) The care of all.

15. What is uneven in the world?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Wealth.
(c) All of these.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did the contemporary writer tell about?

2. What do unharmed poems prove?

3. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?

4. What is most vulnerable when beauty is admired?

5. Who says that beauty removes us from our bodies?

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