On Beauty and Being Just Test | Final Test - Easy

Elaine Scarry
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Beauty and Being Just Test | Final Test - Easy

Elaine Scarry
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?
(a) Incoherent.
(b) Unfair.
(c) All of these.
(d) Ridiculous.

2. What do unharmed poems prove?
(a) Beauty is not harmful.
(b) Beauty is not mortal.
(c) Beauty is not bad.
(d) Beauty is not always the same.

3. Who says that beauty decenters the viewer?
(a) Weil.
(b) Wellington.
(c) Wall.
(d) Wittengate.

4. What contemporary writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Ekete.
(b) Eshete.
(c) Erete.
(d) Efete.

5. What is most vulnerable when beauty is admired?
(a) The person who chooses not to admire others.
(b) The person being admired.
(c) The person who is overlooked.
(d) The person admiring the beauty.

6. What symbolizes social justice for Scarry?
(a) The earth.
(b) The stars.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sky.

7. Beauty was demoted from ______________.
(a) The arts.
(b) All of these.
(c) The sublime.
(d) The natural man.

8. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Halting.
(b) Creating.
(c) Motivating.
(d) Educating.

9. What is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?
(a) In humans.
(b) In memories.
(c) In religion.
(d) In nature.

10. Beauty is compacted with ______________.
(a) Quality.
(b) Tension.
(c) Equality.
(d) Justice.

11. What country did the contemporary writer tell about?
(a) Ethiopia.
(b) Greece.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Finaland.

12. What did Andreas write about?
(a) Fraternity.
(b) History.
(c) Religion.
(d) Slavery.

13. What kind of argument was used when Scarry described what beauty could not do?
(a) Elemental argument.
(b) Positive argument.
(c) Persuasive argument.
(d) Negative argument.

14. What is the final phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Contemporary writers.
(b) Baroque writers.
(c) Mid-Century writers.
(d) Classic philosophers.

15. What is the third of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Gods.
(b) Persons.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Scarry describe her explanations of beauty?

2. What does Scarry say about the demotion of beauty?

3. What is NOT always found with beauty?

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

5. What classic philosopher did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

(see the answer keys)

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