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

2. What shocked Scarry about the bird in the tree?
(a) It was not how she thought it would be.
(b) It was scary.
(c) It was larger than life.
(d) It was beautiful.

3. What object did Matisse write about?
(a) Sea shells.
(b) Ivy vines.
(c) Roses.
(d) Palm fronds.

4. What does Scarry say is the general attitude toward beauty?
(a) It causes both harm and damage.
(b) It goes back and forth.
(c) It is destructive.
(d) It is productive.

5. What does Scarry say has an immortal reach?
(a) Music.
(b) Memory.
(c) Anger.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say is our major limitation in seeing beauty?

2. Why was Voroccio important to Da Vinci?

3. What kind of moment does Scarry say follows most errors?

4. Scarry says beauty ignites a desire for ____________.

5. What does Scarry say marked works created imperfectly?

(see the answer key)

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