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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Matisse have the fear she did?
(a) She heard someone praise a shell she thought was ugly.
(b) She had ignored subtle beauties.
(c) She saw a rose die.
(d) She watched ivy vines slowly kill a tree.

2. What does Scarry say beautiful does NOT always include?
(a) The truth.
(b) The brave.
(c) The right.
(d) The future.

3. What does Scarry say is the first form of art replication?
(a) Vision.
(b) Image.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Touch.

4. What object did Matisse write about?
(a) Roses.
(b) Ivy vines.
(c) Palm fronds.
(d) Sea shells.

5. Who wrote about Odysseus?
(a) Heracles.
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sophocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Danto write to in his excerpt in this book?

2. What does Scarry say brings about equality in society?

3. Scarry says beauty ignites a desire for ____________.

4. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?

5. What struck Odysseus first about the person he visited?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Scarry defend beauty?

2. Why did Plato say people had children?

3. What revelations did Scarry have after reading about Odysseus?

4. Why does Scarry say some people do not defend beauty?

5. What realization came to Scarry by studying Matisse's works?

6. What is "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" about?

7. How does Scarry say that visual art is replicated?

8. What does Scarry say many philosophers have a hard time defining?

9. How did Leonardo Da Vinci create many of his important pieces?

10. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

(see the answer keys)

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