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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Beauty and Being Fair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?
(a) It teaches other to be lovely.
(b) It has continual creation.
(c) It stops people from settling for ugliness.
(d) It brings out the inner beauty.

2. Who wrote about Odysseus?
(a) Homer.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Plato.

3. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?
(a) Generational.
(b) Religious.
(c) Political.
(d) Theoretical.

4. Beauty was demoted from ______________.
(a) The sublime.
(b) The arts.
(c) All of these.
(d) The natural man.

5. Why does Scarry think Matisse will reach more people than her?
(a) He was famous.
(b) He held grudges.
(c) He was an artist.
(d) He had children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?

2. How did Scarry feel about Proust's idea of where the most beauty could be found?

3. What kind of tree did Matisse love?

4. Which one of these is one of the errors in beauty listed in this book?

5. Whom did Odysseus visit?

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