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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sections I - VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Burke, is the first and most simple emotion of the human mind?
(a) Curiosity, or novelty.
(b) Indifference, or lassitude.
(c) Fear, or terror.
(d) Hunger, or longing.

2. What literary example does Burke give as representative of magnificence?
(a) A passage from Shakespeare's _Henry IV_.
(b) One of Donne's Holy Sonnets.
(c) A folk ballad from Scotland.
(d) An excerpt from Milton's _Paradise Lost_.

3. How does Burke define "proportion?"
(a) It illustrates the properties of geometries.
(b) It refers to the amount of food a healthy person eats.
(c) It is the measure of relative quantity.
(d) It is an average of height, breadth, and width.

4. How does Burke define pain and pleasure?
(a) They are each of a positive nature, not dependent upon each other.
(b) They are figments of human imagination that help us explain our world.
(c) They are the only essential qualities about which people are concerned.
(d) They are necessary to each other and cannot be separated.

5. According to Burke, what will the result be of the long, close study of an object?
(a) An increased sense of anxiety.
(b) A decreased interest in the object.
(c) An increased sensibility of taste.
(d) A decreased feeling of pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is grief a part of pleasure, according to Burke?

2. What kinds of sounds does Burke say can be sublime?

3. What does Burke criticize about the patrons of proportion?

4. In Burke's opinion, at what depiction do painters most notably fail?

5. What, according to Burke, is the cause of wrong "taste" in a person?

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