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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the profession of the friend of Scarry's who doubted her ideas?
(a) Writer.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Politician.
(d) Professor.

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

3. Who said that all things aspire to equality?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Aristortle.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. Why do some people claim beauty is not earned?
(a) Some people don't desire it.
(b) It is too easily obtained.
(c) Some people are born with it.
(d) It is too subjective.

5. What did Scarry salute?
(a) Continued existence.
(b) Countries centered around beauty.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Philosophers who loved religion.

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

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

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

9. How does Scarry describe her explanations of beauty?
(a) Naive.
(b) Partial.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Full.

10. What specific plat type does Scarry refer to when talking about gardens?
(a) Trees.
(b) Ferns.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Shrubs.

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

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

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

14. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?
(a) Interior life.
(b) Exterior life.
(c) Spiritual life.
(d) Existential life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?

2. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?

3. What does Scarry say was removed from beauty with its demotion?

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

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

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