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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 can never be harmful?
(a) Seeking for beautiful things.
(b) Giving pleasure to others.
(c) Reading about beauty.
(d) Being beautiful.

2. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?
(a) They appreciate beauty.
(b) They they understand her words.
(c) They find true justice.
(d) They reinstate beauty into religion.

3. What does beauty give us access to do?
(a) Seek better things.
(b) Find love.
(c) Feel alive.
(d) Be distracted from evil.

4. What is every person seeking?
(a) Belonging.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Love.
(d) All of these.

5. Why do people seek out beauty?
(a) They want to lighten their load.
(b) They want to become beautiful.
(c) They want to add it to the world.
(d) They want to see if it exists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Euripides describe in detail?

2. What is the normal distinction between beauty and deity?

3. What started the demotion of beauty?

4. What is the second of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?

5. What mid-century writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What feeling do most people achieve when they seek beauty?

2. What are the two perceptions of beauty Scarry talks about, and how do they differ?

3. What does Scarry say is different about people searching for beauty?

4. What did Anrdreas Eshete write about?

5. Where does Scarry see the most vulnerability in beauty being admired?

6. What does Scarry say about beauty leading to urges?

7. What does Scarry say is the normal distinction between the sublime and the beautiful?

8. Why do some people feel beauty is not earned?

9. What does Scarry say comes to a community before justice?

10. What did Edmund Burke do to start the demotion of beauty?

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