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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. Where did Matisse do most of his work?
(a) The studio.
(b) A bathroom.
(c) Rooftops.
(d) A stage.

2. What kind of tree did Matisse love?
(a) Palm.
(b) Maple.
(c) Oak.
(d) Sycamore.

3. Whom did Danto write to in his excerpt in this book?
(a) Bonnie.
(b) Bethany.
(c) Brittany.
(d) Beatrice.

4. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Comfortable.
(c) Betrayed.
(d) Relieved.

5. What fear did Matisse write about?
(a) Others would never see her beauty.
(b) She would never be beautiful.
(c) She had missed other beauties in life.
(d) She would die and lose her beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Proust see the most beauty?

2. How does the poet who wrote about mistakes in beauty describe these mistakes?

3. Whom did Odysseus visit?

4. What struck Odysseus first about the person he visited?

5. What kind of book is this?

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