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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?
(a) Active.
(b) Passive.
(c) Involuntary.
(d) Manipulated.
2. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?
(a) People's striving for it.
(b) All of these.
(c) People's gaze on it.
(d) People's attention on it.
3. Who said that all things aspire to equality?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Aristortle.
4. What comes from perfect justice?
(a) Perfect beauty.
(b) Perfect rendering.
(c) Perfect creation.
(d) Perfect equality.
5. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?
(a) The caste system.
(b) The Utopia.
(c) The sublime.
(d) The equality.
6. Why can't poems be harmed?
(a) They are creations.
(b) They are inanimate.
(c) They are full of life.
(d) They are eternal.
7. Why do people seek out beauty?
(a) They want to lighten their load.
(b) They want to add it to the world.
(c) They want to become beautiful.
(d) They want to see if it exists.
8. What specific plat type does Scarry refer to when talking about gardens?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Trees.
(c) Shrubs.
(d) Ferns.
9. What is different about the searches for beauty than other searches?
(a) People cannot build beauty.
(b) People don't ever find beauty.
(c) People are not distracted by beauty.
(d) People want to share beauty.
10. What classic philosopher did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Ariadne.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Aurelius.
11. What does Scarry say a bad vase lends value to?
(a) The maker of the vase.
(b) Other works of the maker.
(c) Good vases.
(d) The flowers in the vase.
12. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?
(a) Preacher.
(b) Editor.
(c) Motivational Speaker.
(d) Writer.
13. What is the first kind of perception described by Scarry?
(a) Involuntary.
(b) Passive.
(c) Active.
(d) Voluntary.
14. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Erete.
(b) Eshete.
(c) Ekete.
(d) Efete.
15. How does a bad vase give value to something else?
(a) It lowers the standards.
(b) It provides opposition.
(c) It doesn't detract from beauty.
(d) It allows the maker practice.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who introduced the concept that led to the demotion of beauty?
2. How many phases does Scarry use to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
3. Why do some people claim beauty is not earned?
4. What does beauty unseen improve?
5. What does Scarry like about the term with the dual meaning?
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