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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 does Matisse say her preference in trees kept her from doing?
(a) Living a full life.
(b) Believing others ideas.
(c) Accepting other cultures.
(d) Seeing beauty all around.

2. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?
(a) A self portrait.
(b) An image of a girl serving milk.
(c) A mirror.
(d) The grave of his wife.

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

4. What is the title of the second section of this book?
(a) "Beauty Prompts Praise of Itself."
(b) "Beauty Prompts a Copy of Itself."
(c) "Beauty Prompts a Battle Within."
(d) "Beauty Prompts Some Inner Workings."

5. What does Scarry say the general attitude about beauty indicates in society?
(a) The need for religion.
(b) The worsening of morals.
(c) The pliancy of consciousness.
(d) The strange directional challenges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a motif?

2. What does Matisse say should increase beauty in strange things?

3. How many conclusions did Scarry have about Odysseus's visit?

4. When does Scarry say beauty is not sacred?

5. Whom did Danto write to in his excerpt in this book?

(see the answer key)

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