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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. How does Scarry say she feels when she stops craving beauty?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Comfortable.

2. What does Scarry say is the general attitude toward beauty?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It causes both harm and damage.
(c) It is productive.
(d) It goes back and forth.

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

4. Scarry says most beauty is what kind of event?
(a) Physical.
(b) Visual.
(c) Religious.
(d) Emotional.

5. How did Da Vinci create beauty?
(a) He painted.
(b) He sketched.
(c) All of these.
(d) He was an inventor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry think beauty brings?

2. Who painted "The Morning Session"?

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

4. Who wrote about Odysseus?

5. What is a motif?

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