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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 can never be harmful?
(a) Giving pleasure to others.
(b) Seeking for beautiful things.
(c) Being beautiful.
(d) Reading about beauty.

2. Who wrote about Odysseus?
(a) Heracles.
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sophocles.

3. How does the poet who wrote about mistakes in beauty describe these mistakes?
(a) Strange.
(b) Unkind.
(c) Dishonest.
(d) Unpleasant.

4. Where did Scarry first see beauty in a certain tree?
(a) A book.
(b) A vacation.
(c) A painting.
(d) A dream.

5. Why does Scarry say most people seek for things?
(a) They want to own it.
(b) They want to distract themselves.
(c) They want a purpose.
(d) They want to see if it exists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Scarry say many philosophers had a hard time doing?

2. Who introduced the concept that led to the demotion of beauty?

3. Scarry says there is no end to ______________for beauty.

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

5. What does beauty urge people to do in a good way?

(see the answer key)

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