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

2. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?
(a) It has continual creation.
(b) It teaches other to be lovely.
(c) It brings out the inner beauty.
(d) It stops people from settling for ugliness.

3. When does Scarry say beauty is not sacred?
(a) When it is mortal.
(b) When it is used for evil.
(c) When it is corrupted.
(d) When it is immortal.

4. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Comfortable.
(d) Relieved.

5. When was "The Morning Session" painted?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Plato say really caused children?

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

3. What does Scarry say the general attitude about beauty indicates in society?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" about?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Plato say people had children?

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

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

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

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

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