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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 did Proust want to stay in front of forever?
(a) The grave of his wife.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A self portrait.
(d) An image of a girl serving milk.

2. Where did Proust see the most beauty?
(a) In ideas.
(b) In generalities.
(c) In particulars.
(d) In landscapes.

3. What does an onlooker of beauty often wish?
(a) To enhance their own lives.
(b) To trade places with the beautiful being.
(c) To create something as beautiful.
(d) To stay there a little longer.

4. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Unfair.
(c) All of these.
(d) Incoherent.

5. Beauty is compacted with ______________.
(a) Justice.
(b) Tension.
(c) Quality.
(d) Equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?

2. How many kinds of perception does Scarry talk about in this book?

3. What does Scarry say a bad vase lends value to?

4. Why did Matisse have the fear she did?

5. What baroque writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

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