View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" about?
(a) The beauty of nature.
(b) The artist's lifestyle.
(c) The act of painting.
(d) The cause of art.

3. How did Da Vinci create beauty?
(a) All of these.
(b) He sketched.
(c) He was an inventor.
(d) He painted.

4. What kind of approach does Scarry say feminism takes?
(a) Religious.
(b) Generational.
(c) Political.
(d) Theoretical.

5. What changed in Scarry's vision when she found beauty in a certain tree?
(a) She saw beauty in other trees.
(b) She saw patterns of the tree in other paintings.
(c) She saw the symbolism in all living things.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird did Scarry see in a tree that shocked her?

2. What replaces the paint brush for part of The Morning Session?

3. Where did Matisse do most of his work?

4. What started the demotion of beauty?

5. What kind of potential does Scarry reaffirm when working in a garden?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 226 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample