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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 can never be harmful?
(a) Reading about beauty.
(b) Giving pleasure to others.
(c) Seeking for beautiful things.
(d) Being beautiful.

2. What is NOT always found with beauty?
(a) Evil.
(b) Love.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Personality.

3. Where did Scarry first see beauty in a certain tree?
(a) A vacation.
(b) A book.
(c) A painting.
(d) A dream.

4. What is every person seeking?
(a) Belonging.
(b) Beauty.
(c) All of these.
(d) Love.

5. What is the only place where beauty can possibly be bad?
(a) In nature.
(b) In humans.
(c) In memories.
(d) In religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarry try to include in her writing?

2. What complaints against beauty bother Scarry the most?

3. What is the last kind of perception described in the book?

4. Whom did Danto write to in his excerpt in this book?

5. What does Scarry use a cube to prove?

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