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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 can never be harmful?
(a) Being beautiful.
(b) Giving pleasure to others.
(c) Reading about beauty.
(d) Seeking for beautiful things.

2. Those who wanted to banish beauty wanted to keep beauty out of ___________.
(a) Religious Practices.
(b) Academic Conversations.
(c) Political Campaigns.
(d) Main stream media.

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

4. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?
(a) Interior life.
(b) Spiritual life.
(c) Existential life.
(d) Exterior life.

5. What kind of argument was used when Scarry described what beauty could not do?
(a) Positive argument.
(b) Negative argument.
(c) Persuasive argument.
(d) Elemental argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that beauty puts us in touch with our bodies?

2. Beauty is compacted with ______________.

3. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?

4. What is different about the searches for beauty than other searches?

5. What does Scarry like about the term with the dual meaning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Scarry feel about the political implications on beauty in her time?

4. With what does the search for beauty make a compact?

5. How does Scarry end this book?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Scarry say most people feel when they admire beauty in others?

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