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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 is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?

3. What did those who wanted to banish beauty think was wrong with it?

4. What is NOT always found with beauty?

5. What is the first of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. With what does the search for beauty make a compact?

7. What does Scarry say about critics of beauty?

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

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

10. What did Anrdreas Eshete write about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What role does symbolism play in this collection, and where does it appear? How was the tone altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 3

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

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