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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 the general attitude about beauty indicates in society?
(a) The need for religion.
(b) The worsening of morals.
(c) The pliancy of consciousness.
(d) The strange directional challenges.

2. What did Plato say really caused children?
(a) The banal need for beauty.
(b) The act of beauty replicating itself.
(c) The desire of men to see themselves.
(d) The repercussions of pride.

3. Why does Scarry say a certain tree loses its beauty?
(a) It gets old.
(b) It doesn't belong everywhere.
(c) It has seasons.
(d) It symbolizes bad things.

4. How does Scarry feel about Matisse's ideas?
(a) She agrees with her.
(b) She disagrees.
(c) She agrees with only parts of them.
(d) She is confused by them.

5. What bird did Scarry see in a tree that shocked her?
(a) A crow.
(b) An eagle.
(c) An owl.
(d) A mockingbird.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times was Odyessus saved by beauty?

2. What was Proust's occupation?

3. Where does Scarry look for beauty?

4. What does Scarry say is the general attitude toward beauty?

5. What led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

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

4. For what is Matisse known?

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

6. What shocked Scarry about seeing a real owl?

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

8. What does Emily Dickinson say about revelatory moments?

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

10. What theoretical approaches were majorly emphasized in the 1990's?

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