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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 kind of limitation does Scarry say keeps most people from seeing beauty?
(a) Mental.
(b) Physical.
(c) Religious.
(d) Emotional.

2. What is Scarry's second conclusion about Odysseus's visit?
(a) Beauty is life saving.
(b) Beauty is sacred if it is mortal.
(c) Beauty is sacred if it is immortal.
(d) Beauty is new.

3. What does Scarry say is the first form of art replication?
(a) Image.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Vision.
(d) Touch.

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

5. What does Scarry say about things that were once ugly and then appear beautiful?
(a) They are worse than beautiful things going ugly.
(b) They show long hidden truth.
(c) They are revelatory moments.
(d) They can be pleasant surprises.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "The Painter and His Model, Studio Interior" about?

2. What struck Odysseus first about the person he visited?

3. Which of these writers is NOT cited in the first half of this book?

4. Why does Scarry say a certain tree loses its beauty?

5. What is a motif?

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