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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 bird did Scarry see in a tree that shocked her?

2. What replaces the paint brush for part of The Morning Session?

3. What does Scarry say validates the existence of some things?

4. What did Scarry say many philosophers had a hard time doing?

5. How many conclusions did Scarry have about Odysseus's visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

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

3. What kind of change in beauty is hardest for Scarry to deal with and why?

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

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

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

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

8. What happened to the humanities in the 1990's?

9. What did Proust want to spend his life doing, and why?

10. Why did Plato say people had children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the analogy of the garden, and what message was sent through that analogy?

Essay Topic 2

What was Scarry's relationship with God, and what led to this? How did she maintain this in her life?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the limitations of beauty according to this book, and what examples of these can you see in every day life?

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