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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 Scarry say the metaphysical aspect of beauty validates?

2. What is Scarry's second conclusion about Odysseus's visit?

3. How does Wittgenstein say Leonardo Da Vinci created pure beauty?

4. How does the poet who wrote about mistakes in beauty describe these mistakes?

5. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

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

5. What does Scarry say made her love certain trees and hate others?

6. What does Scarry say many philosophers have a hard time defining?

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

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

9. What does Emily Dickinson say about revelatory moments?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How did Scarry feel about nature, and why did this set her apart from most of the other people in society at the time?`

Essay Topic 3

What does Scarry say about beauty's effect on society? What are your feelings on this?

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