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

2. What is the second of the four examples used to disprove those who want to banish beauty?
(a) Poems.
(b) Gods.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Persons.

3. What is a God impervious to according to Scarry?
(a) Death.
(b) Ugliness.
(c) Harm from humans.
(d) Fear.

4. What concept did Edmund Burke write about?
(a) The equality.
(b) The Utopia.
(c) The caste system.
(d) The sublime.

5. Where does Scarry look for beauty?
(a) All of these.
(b) People.
(c) Nature.
(d) Objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Scarry say most people seek for things?

2. What did Scarry say many philosophers had a hard time doing?

3. Where did Scarry first see beauty in a certain tree?

4. Why does the author want to perpetuate beauty?

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

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