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

2. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?
(a) The caste system.
(b) The Utopia.
(c) The sublime.
(d) The equality.

3. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?
(a) Past experiences.
(b) Cultural differences.
(c) Heart ache.
(d) Things her father said.

4. Who said that all things aspire to equality?
(a) Aristortle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. How many kinds of perception does Scarry talk about in this book?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Scarry say the desire for social good manifests itself?

2. How are the complaints lodged against beauty described?

3. Which of these 'nots' is NOT associated with beauty?

4. What is a motif?

5. Beauty is compacted with ______________.

(see the answer key)

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