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

2. What led to Proust's desire to stay somewhere the rest of his life?
(a) The effects of beauty on him.
(b) The anger of not being beautiful.
(c) The pride of creating beauty.
(d) The need to be near beauty.

3. What fear did Matisse write about?
(a) She would never be beautiful.
(b) She would die and lose her beauty.
(c) Others would never see her beauty.
(d) She had missed other beauties in life.

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

5. What is a motif?
(a) A repeated pattern.
(b) A way of expression.
(c) A kind of poem.
(d) A theme.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does beauty urge people to do in a good way?

2. What does Scarry say beautiful does NOT always include?

3. Scarry says most beauty is what kind of event?

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

5. What does beauty give us access to do?

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