View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of error does Scarry say is not an error of beauty?
(a) Religious error.
(b) Intellectual errors.
(c) Philosophical errors.
(d) Visual errors.

4. 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.

5. What was Matisse's occupation?
(a) Actor.
(b) Poet.
(c) Painter.
(d) Professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tree did Matisse love?

2. When did beauty in post colonialism make a huge entrance in studies?

3. What does Scarry think brings about the most social good?

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

5. When was "The Morning Session" painted?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 191 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample