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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction On Taste Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"
(a) It is the sole means of valuing an individual.
(b) It is unnecessary for discussion about beauty.
(c) It is the province of the refined upper-class.
(d) It is natural and common to all people.

2. What, according to Burke, is most striking to this creative power of mind?
(a) The quality of laughter in human communication.
(b) The potential value of an object.
(c) Comparing resemblances between or imitations of two distinct objects.
(d) Arguments of fairness in disagreements among social unequals.

3. What is this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?
(a) Anything captivating.
(b) Anything of great consequence.
(c) Anything truly new.
(d) Anything passionate.

4. 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 says can only be found in country estates.
(d) Objects he and others he knows think are beautiful.

5. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"
(a) Because God is born in all of us, so we have a natural inclination to believe in him.
(b) Because belief engages the imagination pleasantly, while incredulity is naturally negative.
(c) Because believing makes it easier to get along with others in the social-contract model of society.
(d) Because believing something is easy, whereas not believing is more difficult.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Burke, what will the result be of the long, close study of an object?

2. What problem does Burke find with merely defining a term like "taste?"

3. What is the general reason Burke wrote the book, as stated in the First Preface?

4. What will be Burke's focus in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

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

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