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

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

3. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?
(a) Opposing sides making a whole.
(b) Symmetry with exclusion.
(c) Being well rounded.
(d) One idea havign six faces.

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

5. Who says that beauty puts us in touch with our bodies?
(a) Sorrin.
(b) Scarry.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kinds of perception does Scarry talk about in this book?

2. What is an important part of Scarry's ideal world?

3. What is the second phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

4. What started the demotion of beauty?

5. What does beauty unseen improve?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did critics of beauty in Scarry's time say about beauty?

3. What did Edmund Burke do to start the demotion of beauty?

4. What did Augustine say all people sought after?

5. What is the double meaning of fairness?

6. What does Scarry say is the normal distinction between the sublime and the beautiful?

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

8. Where does Scarry see the most vulnerability in beauty being admired?

9. How does Scarry end this book?

10. What about beauty did Scarry's critics say was destructive?

(see the answer keys)

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