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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 say brings about equality in society?
(a) Women being like men.
(b) Beauty veing recognized.
(c) Men being like women.
(d) Women speaking out.

2. What replaces the paint brush for part of The Morning Session?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Palm fronds.
(c) Ink pens.
(d) Fingers.

3. What does Scarry say is our major limitation in seeing beauty?
(a) We are burdened with physical needs.
(b) We have to start from the beginning.
(c) We rely on our sight.
(d) We do not remember past lives.

4. Whom did Danto write to in his excerpt in this book?
(a) Brittany.
(b) Bethany.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Bonnie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these writers is NOT cited in the first half of this book?

2. What is the title of the second section of this book?

3. When does Scarry say beauty is not sacred?

4. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?

5. When did beauty in post colonialism make a huge entrance in studies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Scarry say about the back and forth ideas about beauty?

4. What shocked Scarry about seeing a real owl?

5. What does Scarry say happens when the desire for beauty fades?

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

7. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

8. What happened to the humanities in the 1990's?

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

10. What kind of change in beauty is easier for Scarry to deal with and why?

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