On Beauty and Being Just Test | Final Test - Easy

Elaine Scarry
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Beauty and Being Just Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an important part of Scarry's ideal world?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The rain.
(c) The weather.
(d) The sky.

2. 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 want to share beauty.
(d) People are not distracted by beauty.

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

4. What does the vulnerable person who admires beauty risk?
(a) Having no privacy.
(b) Giving up secrets.
(c) Being rejected.
(d) Becoming attached.

5. Who says that beauty removes us from our bodies?
(a) Sorrin.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Scarry.

6. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Erete.
(b) Ekete.
(c) Efete.
(d) Eshete.

7. What does Scarry say was removed from beauty with its demotion?
(a) Its good effects.
(b) Its widespread diversity.
(c) Its educational qualities.
(d) Its metaphysical qualities.

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

9. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Motivating.
(b) Educating.
(c) Creating.
(d) Halting.

10. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?
(a) The sublime.
(b) The equality.
(c) The caste system.
(d) The Utopia.

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

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

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

14. Why can't poems be harmed?
(a) They are creations.
(b) They are full of life.
(c) They are eternal.
(d) They are inanimate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does beauty urge people to do in a good way?

4. What is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?

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

(see the answer keys)

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