On Beauty and Being Just Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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 | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Elaine Scarry
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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. What does Scarry think beauty brings?
(a) Confidence.
(b) All of these.
(c) Calmness.
(d) Justice.

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

3. Who wrote poems about mistakes in beauty?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Plato.
(c) John Donne.
(d) Robert Frost.

4. How did Scarry feel about Plato's ideas about beauty?
(a) She hates them.
(b) She is amused by them.
(c) She is confused by them.
(d) She agreed with them.

5. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?
(a) Scorning them.
(b) Judging them.
(c) Using them.
(d) Caring about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Odysseus visit?

2. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?

3. Where did Proust see the most beauty?

4. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?

5. What kind of moment does Scarry say follows most errors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What dos Scarry say is important about works without precedence?

2. What did Proust want to spend his life doing, and why?

3. What part of Odysseus does Scarry include in this book, and why?

4. Why did Scarry include her experience of seeing an owl in this book?

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

6. What does Scarry say errors in beauty really show us?

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

8. Why did Plato say people had children?

9. What does Scarry say made her love certain trees and hate others?

10. What shocked Scarry about seeing a real owl?

(see the answer keys)

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