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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did those who wanted to banish beauty think was wrong with it?
(a) It was destructive.
(b) It was useless.
(c) It was unfairly distributed.
(d) It was distracting.

2. What is negative about the widespread definition of beauty?
(a) It is too detailed.
(b) It is not detailed enough.
(c) It is not given credit for its good.
(d) It is marked by what it cannot do.

3. What kind of pressure does beauty cause?
(a) Positive.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Distributive.
(d) Functional.

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

5. What does the vulnerable person who admires beauty risk?
(a) Becoming attached.
(b) Giving up secrets.
(c) Having no privacy.
(d) Being rejected.

6. What led to beauty being trapped in a particular realm?
(a) Its demotion.
(b) The negative views about it.
(c) The poems written about it.
(d) People changing its ideas.

7. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?
(a) Exterior life.
(b) Existential life.
(c) Spiritual life.
(d) Interior life.

8. What implications are investigated in the section on being fair?
(a) Religious implications.
(b) Legal implication.
(c) Moral implications.
(d) None of these.

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

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

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

12. What did Euripides describe in detail?
(a) Churches.
(b) Huts.
(c) Ships.
(d) Assembly halls.

13. How does Scarry describe her explanations of beauty?
(a) Naive.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Full.
(d) Partial.

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

15. What did Scarry salute?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Countries centered around beauty.
(c) Continued existence.
(d) Philosophers who loved religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say a bad vase lends value to?

2. What does Scarry say about the notions of those who wanted to banish beauty?

3. What is the normal distinction between beauty and deity?

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

5. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?

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