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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Scarry say about things that were once ugly and then appear beautiful?
(a) They show long hidden truth.
(b) They are revelatory moments.
(c) They are worse than beautiful things going ugly.
(d) They can be pleasant surprises.

2. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?
(a) Those who are afraid.
(b) Those who have no beauty.
(c) Those who are selfish.
(d) Those who hoard beauty.

3. What is the title of the second section of this book?
(a) "Beauty Prompts a Copy of Itself."
(b) "Beauty Prompts a Battle Within."
(c) "Beauty Prompts Praise of Itself."
(d) "Beauty Prompts Some Inner Workings."

4. What does Scarry say Beauty's aim should be?
(a) To show truth.
(b) To tell the future.
(c) To combat evil.
(d) To improve society.

5. What led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?
(a) The pride of creating beauty.
(b) The anger of not being beautiful.
(c) The effects of beauty on him.
(d) The need to be near beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matisse say should increase beauty in strange things?

2. What kind of tree did Matisse love?

3. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?

4. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?

5. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?

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