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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baroque writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) None of these.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Frieud.

2. What classic philosopher did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Ariadne.
(d) Aurelius.

3. What country did the contemporary writer tell about?
(a) Finaland.
(b) Greece.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Ethiopia.

4. What implications are investigated in the section on being fair?
(a) Moral implications.
(b) None of these.
(c) Legal implication.
(d) Religious implications.

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

6. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?
(a) Past complaints.
(b) Jealous complaints.
(c) Political complaints.
(d) Religious complaints.

7. How many phases does Scarry use to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

8. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?
(a) Opposing sides making a whole.
(b) Being well rounded.
(c) One idea havign six faces.
(d) Symmetry with exclusion.

9. What is NOT always found with beauty?
(a) Evil.
(b) Love.
(c) Personality.
(d) Goodness.

10. Where does Scarry say the desire for social good manifests itself?
(a) In the mind.
(b) On paper.
(c) As an object.
(d) In communities.

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

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

13. What does beauty urge people to do in a good way?
(a) Create.
(b) Protect.
(c) Manipulate.
(d) Thrive.

14. What does an onlooker of beauty often wish?
(a) To trade places with the beautiful being.
(b) To enhance their own lives.
(c) To stay there a little longer.
(d) To create something as beautiful.

15. What mid-century writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Sion.
(b) Simone.
(c) Sim.
(d) Simon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these terms has a dual meaning?

2. What does the vulnerable person who admires beauty risk?

3. What did those who wanted to banish beauty think was wrong with it?

4. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?

5. What led to beauty being trapped in a particular realm?

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