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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 Scarry use a cube to prove?
(a) Symmetry with exclusion.
(b) Opposing sides making a whole.
(c) Being well rounded.
(d) One idea havign six faces.

2. What is NOT always found with beauty?
(a) Evil.
(b) Goodness.
(c) Love.
(d) Personality.

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

4. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Halting.
(b) Creating.
(c) Educating.
(d) Motivating.

5. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?
(a) He read it over the space of a year.
(b) He looked at both sides.
(c) He read them forwards and backwards.
(d) He compared it with his own works.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these terms has a dual meaning?

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

3. What does beauty give us access to do?

4. What does Scarry try to include in her writing?

5. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Scarry say about gardens?

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

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

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

6. What does Scarry not like about the negative arguments against beauty?

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

8. What does Scarry say about the bad vase?

9. How does Scarry end this book?

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

(see the answer keys)

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