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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. Where did Scarry find a motif?
(a) In art.
(b) In music.
(c) In beauty.
(d) In her taste.

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

3. What fear did Matisse write about?
(a) She would die and lose her beauty.
(b) She had missed other beauties in life.
(c) Others would never see her beauty.
(d) She would never be beautiful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say validates the existence of some things?

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

3. How does Wittgenstein say Leonardo Da Vinci created pure beauty?

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

5. What does Scarry say about things that were once ugly and then appear beautiful?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?

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

4. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

5. Why does Scarry defend beauty?

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

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

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

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

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

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