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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. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?

2. Where did Scarry find a motif?

3. What does Scarry say is our major limitation in seeing beauty?

4. What is "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" about?

5. What does Scarry say beautiful does NOT always include?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

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

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

4. Why does Scarry defend beauty?

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

6. What does Scarry say happens when the desire for beauty fades?

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

8. What part of Odysseus does Scarry include in this book, and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were some of the analogies Scarry used when teaching about beauty, and how did they affect the audiences who heard them?

Essay Topic 2

How are the beautiful and the sublime separated according to Scarry?

Essay Topic 3

Why do some people want to banish beauty in educational facilities, and what effect do you think this would have on those facilities?

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