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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 does Scarry use a cube to prove?

2. What is the final phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

3. Which of these 'nots' is NOT associated with beauty?

4. What kind of pressure does beauty cause?

5. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scarry say about critics of beauty?

2. How do gods prove the usefulness of beauty?

3. How does Scarry feel about the political implications on beauty in her time?

4. How does Scarry end this book?

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

6. What did Augustine say all people sought after?

7. What does Scarry say about the bad vase?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Scarry's relationship with God, and what led to this? How did she maintain this in her life?

Essay Topic 2

How did Scarry say she differed from most of the people she came in contact with, and what did this mean for her daily life?

Essay Topic 3

How did Scarry feel about nature, and why did this set her apart from most of the other people in society at the time?`

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