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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 does beauty give us access to do?
(a) Feel alive.
(b) Be distracted from evil.
(c) Find love.
(d) Seek better things.

2. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?
(a) They appreciate beauty.
(b) They they understand her words.
(c) They find true justice.
(d) They reinstate beauty into religion.

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

4. Whom did Odysseus visit?
(a) Nice.
(b) Norad.
(c) Nausicaa.
(d) Niciria.

5. Scarry says there is no end to ______________for beauty.
(a) The desire.
(b) The place.
(c) All of these.
(d) The need.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a God impervious to according to Scarry?

2. How does Wittgenstein say Leonardo Da Vinci created pure beauty?

3. What kind of book is this?

4. What baroque writer did Scarry quote to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?

5. What is negative about the widespread definition of beauty?

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