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

2. Where does Scarry look for beauty?
(a) People.
(b) Nature.
(c) All of these.
(d) Objects.

3. How does the poet who wrote about mistakes in beauty describe these mistakes?
(a) Dishonest.
(b) Unpleasant.
(c) Strange.
(d) Unkind.

4. What did Wittgenstein say marked true beauty?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Pride.
(c) Replication.
(d) Anonymity.

5. Where did Scarry find a motif?
(a) In beauty.
(b) In music.
(c) In art.
(d) In her taste.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Odysseus visit?

2. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?

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

4. What bird did Scarry see in a tree that shocked her?

5. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?

(see the answer key)

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