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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 fear did Matisse write about?
(a) She had missed other beauties in life.
(b) She would die and lose her beauty.
(c) She would never be beautiful.
(d) Others would never see her beauty.

2. What did those who wanted to banish beauty think was wrong with it?
(a) It was unfairly distributed.
(b) It was destructive.
(c) It was distracting.
(d) It was useless.

3. What kind of potential does Scarry reaffirm when working in a garden?
(a) Global potential.
(b) Human potential.
(c) Personal potential.
(d) National potential.

4. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?
(a) All of these.
(b) They show use ourselves.
(c) They confuse the ideas of beauty.
(d) They are hard on the heart.

5. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?
(a) They find true justice.
(b) They appreciate beauty.
(c) They they understand her words.
(d) They reinstate beauty into religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of life did the demotion of beauty affect the most?

2. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?

3. What is different about the searches for beauty than other searches?

4. What changed in Scarry's vision when she found beauty in a certain tree?

5. Who wrote about Odysseus?

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