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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Scarry's third conclusion about Odysseus's visit?

2. What was Proust's occupation?

3. What was Matisse's occupation?

4. What does Scarry say has an immortal reach?

5. What did Plato say really caused children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What dos Scarry say is important about works without precedence?

2. How does Scarry say that visual art is replicated?

3. What does Scarry say errors in beauty really show us?

4. What happened to the humanities in the 1990's?

5. Why does Scarry defend beauty?

6. What impulses does Scarry say beauty causes?

7. What does Emily Dickinson say about revelatory moments?

8. What kind of change in beauty is hardest for Scarry to deal with and why?

9. What theoretical approaches were majorly emphasized in the 1990's?

10. What does Scarry say many philosophers have a hard time defining?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in this collection, and where does it appear? How was the tone altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

How do beauty and justice connect, and what is the effect of this on society?

Essay Topic 3

Elaine Scarry presented a very interesting and unique philosophy on life. What was this philosophy, and how did this different idealism differ from the normal ideals of people?

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