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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. Who wrote about Odysseus?
(a) Plato.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Homer.
(d) Sophocles.

2. What changed in Scarry's vision when she found beauty in a certain tree?
(a) She saw beauty in other trees.
(b) She saw patterns of the tree in other paintings.
(c) All of these.
(d) She saw the symbolism in all living things.

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

4. What does Matisse blame for her preference in trees?
(a) Cultural differences.
(b) Past experiences.
(c) Heart ache.
(d) Things her father said.

5. What did Plato say really caused children?
(a) The act of beauty replicating itself.
(b) The desire of men to see themselves.
(c) The repercussions of pride.
(d) The banal need for beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?

2. What does Scarry think brings about the most social good?

3. What was Proust's occupation?

4. What is a motif?

5. What does Scarry say Beauty's aim should be?

(see the answer key)

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