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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What realm does beauty live in now according to Scarry?
(a) The Dream.
(b) The Literary.
(c) The Real.
(d) The Imaginative.

3. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?
(a) Computing.
(b) Receiving.
(c) Perceiving.
(d) Judging.

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

5. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?
(a) All of these.
(b) People's attention on it.
(c) People's gaze on it.
(d) People's striving for it.

6. What comes from perfect justice?
(a) Perfect equality.
(b) Perfect beauty.
(c) Perfect rendering.
(d) Perfect creation.

7. What started the demotion of beauty?
(a) The introduction of the sublime.
(b) The change in power distribution.
(c) The fall of Rome.
(d) The printing of the Bible.

8. What does Scarry say a bad vase lends value to?
(a) Other works of the maker.
(b) Good vases.
(c) The flowers in the vase.
(d) The maker of the vase.

9. What baroque writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Frieud.
(d) None of these.

10. Why does Scarry say most people seek for things?
(a) They want to see if it exists.
(b) They want a purpose.
(c) They want to distract themselves.
(d) They want to own it.

11. What is the normal distinction between beauty and deity?
(a) That which motivates us and that which holds us back.
(b) That which charms us and that which moves us.
(c) That which compels us and that which calms us.
(d) That which feels natural and that which feels foreign.

12. Scarry's doubtful friend agreed with the idea that ________________.
(a) People needed beauty to survive.
(b) People were better with beauty.
(c) Beauty brought about good.
(d) Beauty and justice needed balance.

13. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?
(a) Active.
(b) Involuntary.
(c) Manipulated.
(d) Passive.

14. In what field was beauty taboo when this book was written?
(a) Politics.
(b) Academics.
(c) Religion.
(d) All of these.

15. Who says that beauty removes us from our bodies?
(a) Scarry.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Sorrin.
(d) Sophocles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who said that all things aspire to equality?

3. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?

4. What is most vulnerable when beauty is admired?

5. Why do some people claim beauty is not earned?

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