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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Beauty was demoted from ______________.
(a) All of these.
(b) The natural man.
(c) The sublime.
(d) The arts.

4. Which of these 'nots' is NOT associated with beauty?
(a) Not night.
(b) Not harmful.
(c) Not male.
(d) Not righteous.

5. What do unharmed poems prove?
(a) Beauty is not bad.
(b) Beauty is not harmful.
(c) Beauty is not always the same.
(d) Beauty is not mortal.

6. What is negative about the widespread definition of beauty?
(a) It is too detailed.
(b) It is marked by what it cannot do.
(c) It is not given credit for its good.
(d) It is not detailed enough.

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

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

9. What led to beauty being trapped in a particular realm?
(a) The negative views about it.
(b) The poems written about it.
(c) Its demotion.
(d) People changing its ideas.

10. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?
(a) They reinstate beauty into religion.
(b) They find true justice.
(c) They they understand her words.
(d) They appreciate beauty.

11. What is the first phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Baroque writers.
(b) Contemporary writers.
(c) Classic philosophers.
(d) Mid-Century writers.

12. What can never be harmful?
(a) Giving pleasure to others.
(b) Being beautiful.
(c) Reading about beauty.
(d) Seeking for beautiful things.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?

3. What did Scarry salute?

4. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?

5. What does Scarry say a bad vase lends value to?

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