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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 is Scarry's third conclusion about Odysseus's visit?
(a) Beauty cannot always last.
(b) Beauty is life saving.
(c) Beauty is new.
(d) Beauty can be evil.

2. To what kind of craving does Scarry compare beauty?
(a) Sex.
(b) Shelter.
(c) Food.
(d) Water.

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

4. Who wrote about Odysseus?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Heracles.

5. What does Scarry say about things that once were beautiful but change?
(a) They show use ourselves.
(b) They are hard on the heart.
(c) They confuse the ideas of beauty.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?

2. Where does Scarry look for beauty?

3. What is Scarry's second conclusion about Odysseus's visit?

4. What does Scarry think beauty brings?

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

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