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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 is the third phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

2. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?

3. What is the second phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

4. What did Euripides describe in detail?

5. How many phases does Scarry use to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scarry say about critics of beauty?

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

3. What did Augustine say all people sought after?

4. What is the double meaning of fairness?

5. What did Plato say about the beauty of one?

6. What does Scarry use as her examples against those who said beauty was bad?

7. What did Anrdreas Eshete write about?

8. What does Scarry say can never be harmful to humans, and why?

9. What does Scarry say about the bad vase?

10. How do gods prove the usefulness of beauty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What was your favorite quote from this book, and why was it so significant to you?

Essay Topic 3

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

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