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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. How does the poet who wrote about mistakes in beauty describe these mistakes?
(a) Unkind.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Strange.
(d) Unpleasant.

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

3. Whom did Odysseus visit?
(a) Nice.
(b) Niciria.
(c) Norad.
(d) Nausicaa.

4. Where did Scarry find a motif?
(a) In beauty.
(b) In music.
(c) In her taste.
(d) In art.

5. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?
(a) Heart ache.
(b) Cultural differences.
(c) Past experiences.
(d) Things her father said.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Scarry prove her ideas about beauty?

2. What does Scarry say is the general attitude toward beauty?

3. Where did Proust see the most beauty?

4. What did Plato say really caused children?

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

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