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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 term is defined with both beauty and justice?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Fairness.

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

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

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

5. What is the normal distinction between beauty and deity?
(a) That which compels us and that which calms us.
(b) That which motivates us and that which holds us back.
(c) That which charms us and that which moves us.
(d) That which feels natural and that which feels foreign.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is negative about the widespread definition of beauty?

2. How does a bad vase give value to something else?

3. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?

4. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?

5. What is uneven in the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What feeling do most people achieve when they seek beauty?

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

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

9. What does Scarry say about the bad vase?

10. What is the double meaning of fairness?

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