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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 was the profession of the friend of Scarry's who doubted her ideas?
(a) Politician.
(b) Professor.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Writer.

2. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?
(a) Preacher.
(b) Editor.
(c) Motivational Speaker.
(d) Writer.

3. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?
(a) Passive.
(b) Active.
(c) Involuntary.
(d) Manipulated.

4. What did Scarry salute?
(a) Countries centered around beauty.
(b) Continued existence.
(c) Philosophers who loved religion.
(d) Beauty.

5. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?
(a) All of these.
(b) People's attention on it.
(c) People's gaze on it.
(d) People's striving for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an onlooker of beauty often wish?

2. How many phases does Scarry use to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

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

4. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

5. What does Scarry say was removed from beauty with its demotion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scarry use as her examples against those who said beauty was bad?

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

3. How does Scarry end this book?

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

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

6. What does Scarry say about critics of beauty?

7. What did critics of beauty in Scarry's time say about beauty?

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

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

10. What did Plato say about the beauty of one?

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