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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does beauty give us access to do?
(a) Feel alive.
(b) Seek better things.
(c) Be distracted from evil.
(d) Find love.

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

3. In what field was beauty taboo when this book was written?
(a) All of these.
(b) Religion.
(c) Academics.
(d) Politics.

4. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?
(a) All of these.
(b) Unfair.
(c) Incoherent.
(d) Ridiculous.

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

6. How does Scarry describe her explanations of beauty?
(a) Naive.
(b) Full.
(c) Partial.
(d) Incomplete.

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

8. What is the first of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Poems.
(c) Gods.
(d) Persons.

9. What did Scarry salute?
(a) Countries centered around beauty.
(b) Continued existence.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Philosophers who loved religion.

10. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?
(a) People's gaze on it.
(b) People's attention on it.
(c) All of these.
(d) People's striving for it.

11. What is different about the searches for beauty than other searches?
(a) People want to share beauty.
(b) People cannot build beauty.
(c) People don't ever find beauty.
(d) People are not distracted by beauty.

12. Who wanted to banish beauty in the 20th Century?
(a) Critics.
(b) Ugly people.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Priests.

13. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Computing.
(b) Receiving.
(c) Judging.
(d) Perceiving.

14. What does Scarry like about the term with the dual meaning?
(a) It is always changing.
(b) It proves her point.
(c) It leaves room for error.
(d) It has symmetry.

15. What comes from perfect justice?
(a) Perfect beauty.
(b) Perfect rendering.
(c) Perfect equality.
(d) Perfect creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does beauty unseen improve?

2. Which of these terms has a dual meaning?

3. What classic philosopher did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

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

5. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?

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