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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 Scarry's first conclusion about Odysseus's visit?
(a) Beauty is sacred if it is mortal.
(b) Beauty is sacred if it is immortal.
(c) Beauty is life saving.
(d) Beauty is new.

2. What is the normal distinction between beauty and deity?
(a) That which charms us and that which moves us.
(b) That which motivates us and that which holds us back.
(c) That which feels natural and that which feels foreign.
(d) That which compels us and that which calms us.

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

4. Who wrote poems about mistakes in beauty?
(a) Plato.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) John Donne.

5. What impulse does Scarry say beauty creates?
(a) The impulse to find beauty.
(b) The impulse to beget.
(c) The impulse to improve one's self.
(d) The impulse to write.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?

2. What do unharmed poems prove?

3. Plato said the beauty of one could lead to ____________.

4. What term is defined with both beauty and justice?

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

(see the answer key)

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