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

2. Who says that beauty puts us in touch with our bodies?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Sorrin.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Scarry.

3. What comes from perfect justice?
(a) Perfect rendering.
(b) Perfect creation.
(c) Perfect equality.
(d) Perfect beauty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?

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

3. What is the third phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Augustine say all people sought after?

10. How does Scarry end this book?

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