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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Beauty and Being Wrong.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a motif?
(a) A way of expression.
(b) A theme.
(c) A kind of poem.
(d) A repeated pattern.

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

3. Where did Scarry find a motif?
(a) In art.
(b) In beauty.
(c) In music.
(d) In her taste.

4. What object did Matisse write about?
(a) Roses.
(b) Ivy vines.
(c) Sea shells.
(d) Palm fronds.

5. Whom did Odysseus visit?
(a) Nice.
(b) Niciria.
(c) Nausicaa.
(d) Norad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impulse does Scarry say beauty creates?

2. When was "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" created?

3. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?

4. How did Scarry feel about Proust's idea of where the most beauty could be found?

5. What does Scarry say about things that were once ugly and then appear beautiful?

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