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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What term is defined with both beauty and justice?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Fairness.
2. What is the final phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Contemporary writers.
(b) Mid-Century writers.
(c) Classic philosophers.
(d) Baroque writers.
3. What do unharmed poems prove?
(a) Beauty is not always the same.
(b) Beauty is not bad.
(c) Beauty is not harmful.
(d) Beauty is not mortal.
4. What is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?
(a) In humans.
(b) In memories.
(c) In religion.
(d) In nature.
5. What is most vulnerable when beauty is admired?
(a) The person admiring the beauty.
(b) The person who chooses not to admire others.
(c) The person who is overlooked.
(d) The person being admired.
6. What kind of potential does Scarry reaffirm when working in a garden?
(a) Human potential.
(b) Personal potential.
(c) Global potential.
(d) National potential.
7. What does beauty give us access to do?
(a) Feel alive.
(b) Find love.
(c) Seek better things.
(d) Be distracted from evil.
8. Beauty is compacted with ______________.
(a) Equality.
(b) Tension.
(c) Justice.
(d) Quality.
9. Beauty was demoted from ______________.
(a) The natural man.
(b) The arts.
(c) The sublime.
(d) All of these.
10. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Eshete.
(b) Erete.
(c) Efete.
(d) Ekete.
11. Why do some people claim beauty is not earned?
(a) It is too subjective.
(b) It is too easily obtained.
(c) Some people are born with it.
(d) Some people don't desire it.
12. Which of these 'nots' is NOT associated with beauty?
(a) Not righteous.
(b) Not night.
(c) Not male.
(d) Not harmful.
13. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Receiving.
(b) Computing.
(c) Judging.
(d) Perceiving.
14. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?
(a) Jealous complaints.
(b) Religious complaints.
(c) Past complaints.
(d) Political complaints.
15. What baroque writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Plato.
(b) Frieud.
(c) Socrates.
(d) None of these.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do people seek out beauty?
2. What is an important part of Scarry's ideal world?
3. What did Scarry salute?
4. What is the first of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
5. What comes from perfect justice?
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