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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 error does Scarry say is not an error of beauty?
(a) Religious error.
(b) Intellectual errors.
(c) Visual errors.
(d) Philosophical errors.

2. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?
(a) To make life happier.
(b) To show she is write.
(c) To make the world better.
(d) All of these.

3. What did Scarry say many philosophers had a hard time doing?
(a) Being happy.
(b) Being honest.
(c) Finding beauty.
(d) Defining beauty.

4. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?
(a) Those who are afraid.
(b) Those who are selfish.
(c) Those who hoard beauty.
(d) Those who have no beauty.

5. What impulse does Scarry say beauty creates?
(a) The impulse to write.
(b) The impulse to find beauty.
(c) The impulse to beget.
(d) The impulse to improve one's self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?

2. What object did Matisse write about?

3. When does Scarry say beauty is not sacred?

4. What is Scarry's third conclusion about Odysseus's visit?

5. When did beauty in post colonialism make a huge entrance in studies?

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