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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. What does Scarry try to include in her writing?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Emphasis.
(c) Doctrine.
(d) Religion.

2. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?
(a) The sublime.
(b) The Utopia.
(c) The caste system.
(d) The equality.

3. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?
(a) Judging them.
(b) Scorning them.
(c) Using them.
(d) Caring about them.

4. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?
(a) People's gaze on it.
(b) People's attention on it.
(c) All of these.
(d) People's striving for it.

5. What fear did Matisse write about?
(a) She had missed other beauties in life.
(b) She would die and lose her beauty.
(c) Others would never see her beauty.
(d) She would never be beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?

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

3. Where did Matisse do most of his work?

4. What is the third phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

5. What is a God impervious to according to Scarry?

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