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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 led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?
(a) The need to be near beauty.
(b) The pride of creating beauty.
(c) The effects of beauty on him.
(d) The anger of not being beautiful.

2. Which of these writers is NOT cited in the first half of this book?
(a) Plato.
(b) Homer.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Dickinson.

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

4. 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.

5. How does Scarry feel about Matisse's ideas?
(a) She disagrees.
(b) She is confused by them.
(c) She agrees with only parts of them.
(d) She agrees with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scarry says most beauty is what kind of event?

2. What kind of moment does Scarry say precedes most errors?

3. What is the title of the second section of this book?

4. Who painted "The Morning Session"?

5. Who disavows the virtues of beauty?

(see the answer key)

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