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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 negative about the widespread definition of beauty?
(a) It is marked by what it cannot do.
(b) It is too detailed.
(c) It is not detailed enough.
(d) It is not given credit for its good.

2. What does beauty give us access to do?
(a) Seek better things.
(b) Feel alive.
(c) Be distracted from evil.
(d) Find love.

3. What does beauty urge people to do in a good way?
(a) Manipulate.
(b) Thrive.
(c) Protect.
(d) Create.

4. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?
(a) Symmetry with exclusion.
(b) Being well rounded.
(c) One idea havign six faces.
(d) Opposing sides making a whole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust's occupation?

2. Where was beauty largely noticed in the 1990's?

3. How did Da Vinci create beauty?

4. Which one of these is one of the errors in beauty listed in this book?

5. What can never be harmful?

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