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

2. What implications are investigated in the section on being fair?
(a) None of these.
(b) Legal implication.
(c) Religious implications.
(d) Moral implications.

3. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?
(a) Writer.
(b) Motivational Speaker.
(c) Editor.
(d) Preacher.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do unharmed poems prove?

2. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?

3. What does Scarry say is the first form of art replication?

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

5. What is the title of the second section of this book?

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