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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Beauty and Being Fair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Proust want to stay in front of forever?
(a) The grave of his wife.
(b) A self portrait.
(c) A mirror.
(d) An image of a girl serving milk.

2. What does an onlooker of beauty often wish?
(a) To enhance their own lives.
(b) To create something as beautiful.
(c) To stay there a little longer.
(d) To trade places with the beautiful being.

3. What is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?
(a) In religion.
(b) In memories.
(c) In humans.
(d) In nature.

4. What kind of limitation does Scarry say keeps most people from seeing beauty?
(a) Physical.
(b) Mental.
(c) Religious.
(d) Emotional.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can never be harmful?

2. What mid-century writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

3. What specific plat type does Scarry refer to when talking about gardens?

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

5. What was Iris Murdoch's occupation?

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