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

2. What problem does Burke find with merely defining a term like "taste?"
(a) People may disagree with and contest his definition.
(b) The process of defining the term may go on forever, and become overwhelming.
(c) Taste is only an idea, not a reality, so it cannot be defined or described.
(d) There is a danger of confining and limiting the term to our present understanding.

3. What does Burke want "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" to accomplish?
(a) The Enquiry will disprove older theories.
(b) The Enquiry will be useful in schools.
(c) The Enquiry will open minds.
(d) The Enquiry will teach people about nature.

4. What examples does Burke use to prove that people agree upon sensory observations?
(a) Feelings of sharp or soft.
(b) The tastes of sweet, bitter, and sour.
(c) Sudden, loud sounds as opposed to quiet, soft sounds.
(d) The pleasantness or unpleasantness of certain thoughts.

5. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?
(a) Liberty and patriotism.
(b) Picturesque and picaresque.
(c) Sublime and beauty.
(d) Fear and terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?

2. What, according to Burke, is most striking to this creative power of mind?

3. What natural powers in man does Burke say relate to external objects?

4. What example does Burke use to demonstrate that differing tastes stem from the same basic root?

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

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