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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What part of life did the demotion of beauty affect the most?
(a) Family life.
(b) Religion.
(c) Education.
(d) Politics.

3. What kind of potential does Scarry reaffirm when working in a garden?
(a) Global potential.
(b) Human potential.
(c) National potential.
(d) Personal potential.

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

5. What does Scarry say confirms the life of gardens?
(a) Pulling weeds.
(b) Helping plants reproduce.
(c) Caring for the plants there.
(d) Admiring their beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Andreas write about?

2. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?

3. What country did the contemporary writer tell about?

4. What is every person seeking?

5. What can never be harmful?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scarry say comes to a community before justice?

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

3. What does Scarry always include in her writing and why?

4. How does Scarry say most people feel when they admire beauty in others?

5. What is the double meaning of fairness?

6. What does Scarry say about gardens?

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

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

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

10. What did Rilke salute with his words on beauty and justice?

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