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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Scarry say about the demotion of beauty?
(a) It is ineffective.
(b) It is dangerous.
(c) It is plausible.
(d) It is incoherent.

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

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

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

5. What kind of argument was used when Scarry described what beauty could not do?
(a) Negative argument.
(b) Persuasive argument.
(c) Elemental argument.
(d) Positive argument.

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

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

8. What term is defined with both beauty and justice?
(a) Fairness.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Mercy.

9. Who introduced the concept that led to the demotion of beauty?
(a) Paul.
(b) Kant.
(c) Cisero.
(d) Lund.

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

11. What realm does beauty live in now according to Scarry?
(a) The Literary.
(b) The Dream.
(c) The Real.
(d) The Imaginative.

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

13. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?
(a) He looked at both sides.
(b) He read them forwards and backwards.
(c) He compared it with his own works.
(d) He read it over the space of a year.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

2. Beauty was demoted from ______________.

3. What can never be harmful?

4. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?

5. What part of life did the demotion of beauty affect the most?

(see the answer keys)

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