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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Burke assert about sensory observation?
(a) That sensory observation is of little importance to his discussion.
(b) That divergent sensory observations of the same object are natural.
(c) That all people sense things in pretty much the same way.
(d) That sensory input varies widely between individuals.

2. In what year was "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" first published?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1773.

3. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"
(a) The sense of taste located on the tongue, which distinguish sweet, salty, bitter, and sour flavors.
(b) The sense of distinction that the higher social classes have above the lower social classes.
(c) The notions of personal style that refined, elegant people display when in public.
(d) Those faculties of the mind which form judgments upon the work of the imagination and the elegant arts.

4. What are sources of the "sublime?"
(a) Anything that promotes pleasure.
(b) Anything that causes the subject to think deeply.
(c) Anything of beauty.
(d) Anything that excites terror, pain, or danger.

5. Which method of teaching does Burke think best?
(a) Allowing the learner to investigate the subject.
(b) Lecturing the learner on the subject.
(c) Referring obliquely to the subject in conversation with the learner.
(d) Testing the learner on the subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Burke, do we delight in the tragedies of others?

2. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?

3. What does Burke term the "creative power" of the mind?

4. What, according to Burke, is responsible for common deviations in natural taste?

5. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"

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