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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Burke use as an example of difficulty as greatness?
(a) Roman aqueducts.
(b) The Great Wall of China.
(c) Stonehenge.
(d) The Pyramids of Egypt.

2. What emotion has the physical effects of a reclined head, half-closed eyelids, and sighing breath, according to Burke?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

3. What examples does Burke use to argue that some sights are pleasurable to all people?
(a) Objects or ideas that he argues are morally repugnant.
(b) Objects he opines are among the ugliest animal species.
(c) Objects he and others he knows think are beautiful.
(d) Objects he says can only be found in country estates.

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 necessary to each other and cannot be separated.
(d) They are the only essential qualities about which people are concerned.

5. How, according to Burke, can light and dark be equal?
(a) If one experiences light and dark for equal periods of time.
(b) When the overpowering nature of one creates the effect of the other.
(c) Only when quantities balance each other.
(d) Because according to science, there is no difference between light and dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Burke's argument for the existence of the passion of ambition?

3. Burke writes that "Beauty in distress is the most _________ kind of beauty."

4. What example does Burke offer to show his ideas on the effects of tragedy?

5. According to Burke, what is the mechanical reason darkness is terrible?

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