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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 led to beauty being trapped in a particular realm?
(a) The negative views about it.
(b) The poems written about it.
(c) People changing its ideas.
(d) Its demotion.

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

3. What is the first of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Gods.
(c) Poems.
(d) Persons.

4. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Efete.
(b) Erete.
(c) Eshete.
(d) Ekete.

5. What is negative about the widespread definition of beauty?
(a) It is not detailed enough.
(b) It is too detailed.
(c) It is not given credit for its good.
(d) It is marked by what it cannot do.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?

2. Who said that all things aspire to equality?

3. Why do people seek out beauty?

4. Where does Scarry say the desire for social good manifests itself?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scarry say can never be harmful to humans, and why?

2. How does Scarry end this book?

3. What about beauty did Scarry's critics say was destructive?

4. What did Rilke salute with his words on beauty and justice?

5. What does Scarry say about the bad vase?

6. What does Scarry always include in her writing and why?

7. What does Scarry say most people want when they search for things?

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

9. What did Augustine say all people sought after?

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

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