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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 Scarry say about the notions of those who wanted to banish beauty?
(a) They are showing their weaknesses.
(b) They are half truths.
(c) They are contradictory.
(d) They are unfounded.

2. How does Scarry describe her explanations of beauty?
(a) Partial.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Naive.
(d) Full.

3. What kind of argument was used when Scarry described what beauty could not do?
(a) Positive argument.
(b) Elemental argument.
(c) Persuasive argument.
(d) Negative argument.

4. What did Scarry salute?
(a) Philosophers who loved religion.
(b) Countries centered around beauty.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Continued existence.

5. What is the second of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Persons.
(b) Poems.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?

2. What kind of book is this?

3. What does Scarry say about the demotion of beauty?

4. Who said that all things aspire to equality?

5. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?

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