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

2. Who says that beauty removes us from our bodies?
(a) Scarry.
(b) Sorrin.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. How did Scarry's doubtful friend study her ideas about beauty?
(a) He compared it with his own works.
(b) He read it over the space of a year.
(c) He read them forwards and backwards.
(d) He looked at both sides.

4. What does Scarry say beautiful does NOT always include?
(a) The right.
(b) The brave.
(c) The truth.
(d) The future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Scarry's second conclusion about Odysseus's visit?

2. How does the poet who wrote about mistakes in beauty describe these mistakes?

3. What term is defined with both beauty and justice?

4. What does beauty unseen improve?

5. What part of life did the demotion of beauty affect the most?

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