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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matisse say her preference in trees kept her from doing?

2. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?

3. What shocked Scarry about the bird in the tree?

4. Whom did Odysseus visit?

5. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What realization came to Scarry by studying Matisse's works?

2. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?

3. Why does Scarry say some people do not defend beauty?

4. What does Scarry say errors in beauty really show us?

5. How does Scarry say that visual art is replicated?

6. What is the first error of beauty explained by Scarry?

7. How did Leonardo Da Vinci create many of his important pieces?

8. Why did Plato say people had children?

9. What does Scarry say about the back and forth ideas about beauty?

10. What dos Scarry say is important about works without precedence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the errors in beauty mentioned by Scarry, and how do you think they can be overcome?

Essay Topic 2

How did Scarry incorporate personification into this book, and what effect did this have on the tone of it?

Essay Topic 3

How do beauty and justice connect, and what is the effect of this on society?

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