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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 does Scarry use a cube to prove?
(a) One idea havign six faces.
(b) Opposing sides making a whole.
(c) Symmetry with exclusion.
(d) Being well rounded.

2. What is the second phase used to illustrate the link between beauty and justice?
(a) Contemporary writers.
(b) Mid-Century writers.
(c) Baroque writers.
(d) Classic philosophers.

3. Why does Scarry say a certain tree loses its beauty?
(a) It symbolizes bad things.
(b) It has seasons.
(c) It doesn't belong everywhere.
(d) It gets old.

4. What does Scarry think brings about the most social good?
(a) Equality.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Justice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times was Odyessus saved by beauty?

2. What was the profession of the friend of Scarry's who doubted her ideas?

3. What is the first kind of perception described by Scarry?

4. What about beauty did those wanting to banish it say was destructive?

5. Why does Scarry think Matisse will reach more people than her?

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