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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 bird did Scarry see in a tree that shocked her?
(a) A mockingbird.
(b) A crow.
(c) An eagle.
(d) An owl.

2. What kind of approach does Scarry say feminism takes?
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Generational.
(c) Political.
(d) Religious.

3. 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.

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

5. Why do people seek out beauty?
(a) They want to lighten their load.
(b) They want to see if it exists.
(c) They want to become beautiful.
(d) They want to add it to the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry say we should stop doing to objects?

2. What does beauty unseen improve?

3. Beauty is compacted with ______________.

4. What does Scarry say is our major limitation in seeing beauty?

5. What kind of approach does Scarry say Marxism takes?

(see the answer key)

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