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

2. Why does Scarry think Matisse will reach more people than her?
(a) He held grudges.
(b) He had children.
(c) He was famous.
(d) He was an artist.

3. In what field was beauty taboo when this book was written?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Academics.
(d) All of these.

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

5. What changed in Scarry's vision when she found beauty in a certain tree?
(a) She saw the symbolism in all living things.
(b) All of these.
(c) She saw beauty in other trees.
(d) She saw patterns of the tree in other paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do unharmed poems prove?

2. Where did Matisse do most of his work?

3. What kind of life does Scarry want to make beautiful?

4. What did Euripides describe in detail?

5. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?

(see the answer key)

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