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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 does the vulnerable person who admires beauty risk?
(a) Being rejected.
(b) Becoming attached.
(c) Having no privacy.
(d) Giving up secrets.

2. What does Scarry say confirms the life of gardens?
(a) Pulling weeds.
(b) Admiring their beauty.
(c) Helping plants reproduce.
(d) Caring for the plants there.

3. What symbolizes social justice for Scarry?
(a) The sky.
(b) The earth.
(c) The moon.
(d) The stars.

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

5. Scarry's doubtful friend agreed with the idea that ________________.
(a) Beauty and justice needed balance.
(b) Beauty brought about good.
(c) People were better with beauty.
(d) People needed beauty to survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?

2. What is the final phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

3. What is NOT always found with beauty?

4. What classic philosopher did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Anrdreas Eshete write about?

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

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

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

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

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

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