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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 term is defined with both beauty and justice?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Fairness.

2. 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 beget.
(d) The impulse to write.

3. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?
(a) Political complaints.
(b) Past complaints.
(c) Jealous complaints.
(d) Religious complaints.

4. How does Scarry say education helps beauty?
(a) It stops people from settling for ugliness.
(b) It teaches other to be lovely.
(c) It brings out the inner beauty.
(d) It has continual creation.

5. What does Scarry say the general attitude about beauty indicates in society?
(a) The strange directional challenges.
(b) The need for religion.
(c) The pliancy of consciousness.
(d) The worsening of morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is one of the mental actions Scarry says beauty inspires?

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

3. When does Scarry say beauty is not sacred?

4. What is Scarry's hope for the next generation?

5. What implications are investigated in the section on being fair?

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