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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 realm does beauty live in now according to Scarry?

2. What is the first kind of perception described by Scarry?

3. What does the vulnerable person who admires beauty risk?

4. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?

5. What implications are investigated in the section on being fair?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Scarry say most people want when they search for things?

4. What does Scarry say is different about people searching for beauty?

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

6. What mental actions does Scarry write about, and what do they cause?

7. What did Rilke salute with his words on beauty and justice?

8. Why do some people feel beauty is not earned?

9. What does Scarry say comes to a community before justice?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Where does vulnerability fit in with beauty and the admiration of it, according to Scarry? What are your thoughts on this thesis?

Essay Topic 3

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

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