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

2. What do unharmed poems prove?
(a) Beauty is not harmful.
(b) Beauty is not bad.
(c) Beauty is not mortal.
(d) Beauty is not always the same.

3. Who said that all things aspire to equality?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristortle.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. What did those who wanted to banish beauty think was wrong with it?
(a) It was destructive.
(b) It was unfairly distributed.
(c) It was useless.
(d) It was distracting.

5. What kind of pressure does beauty cause?
(a) Positive.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Functional.
(d) Distributive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?

2. What can never be harmful?

3. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?

4. What kind of potential does Scarry reaffirm when working in a garden?

5. What kind of argument was used when Scarry described what beauty could not do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do gods prove the usefulness of beauty?

2. What mental actions does Scarry write about, and what do they cause?

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

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

5. What does Scarry not like about the negative arguments against beauty?

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

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

8. What does Scarry say about the bad vase?

9. What is the double meaning of fairness?

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

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