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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 kind of tree did Matisse love?
(a) Sycamore.
(b) Palm.
(c) Oak.
(d) Maple.

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

3. What was Matisse's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Actor.
(c) Painter.
(d) Professor.

4. How did Scarry feel about Proust's idea of where the most beauty could be found?
(a) She disagrees.
(b) She agrees.
(c) She sees the merit, but thinks it is too bold.
(d) She thinks it is a cowardly description.

5. To what kind of craving does Scarry compare beauty?
(a) Food.
(b) Sex.
(c) Water.
(d) Shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matisse say should increase beauty in strange things?

2. Why did Matisse have the fear she did?

3. Who was Wittgenstein?

4. What does Scarry think brings about the most social good?

5. What object did Matisse write about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Scarry say about the metaphysical qualities of beauty?

3. What genre does this book fit in and why?

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

5. Why did Plato say people had children?

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

7. What does Emily Dickinson say about revelatory moments?

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

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

10. What shocked Scarry about seeing a real owl?

(see the answer keys)

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