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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 third of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Persons.
(b) Gods.
(c) Poems.
(d) Gardens.
2. What kind of argument was used when Scarry described what beauty could not do?
(a) Elemental argument.
(b) Negative argument.
(c) Positive argument.
(d) Persuasive argument.
3. What mid-century writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Simone.
(b) Simon.
(c) Sion.
(d) Sim.
4. Beauty was demoted from ______________.
(a) The sublime.
(b) All of these.
(c) The arts.
(d) The natural man.
5. What realm does beauty live in now according to Scarry?
(a) The Literary.
(b) The Imaginative.
(c) The Dream.
(d) The Real.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?
2. What does Scarry try to include in her writing?
3. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?
4. What does beauty urge people to do in a good way?
5. What is most vulnerable when beauty is admired?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Scarry use as her examples against those who said beauty was bad?
2. Why do some people feel beauty is not earned?
3. What about beauty did Scarry's critics say was destructive?
4. What does Scarry say most people want when they search for things?
5. How does Scarry end this book?
6. What does Scarry say about critics of beauty?
7. What is the double meaning of fairness?
8. What are the two perceptions of beauty Scarry talks about, and how do they differ?
9. How do gods prove the usefulness of beauty?
10. What did critics of beauty in Scarry's time say about beauty?
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