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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 is the first of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Gods.
(b) Persons.
(c) Poems.
(d) Gardens.

2. What is the third phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Contemporary writers.
(b) Mid-Century writers.
(c) Baroque writers.
(d) Classic philosophers.

3. Where was beauty largely noticed in the 1990's?
(a) The humanities.
(b) Politics.
(c) Patriotic ideals.
(d) Natural settings.

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

5. What is the third of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Persons.
(b) Gods.
(c) Poems.
(d) Gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

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

3. What kind of limitation does Scarry say keeps most people from seeing beauty?

4. What kind of tree did Matisse love?

5. Which of these writers is NOT cited in the first half of this book?

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