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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. Why are certain drugs enjoyable, according to Burke?
(a) Because people become accustomed to their pleasurable effects.
(b) Because people can get them for a low cost.
(c) Because the users only take them for their healthy properties.
(d) Because the users have no idea of the potential harm of the drug.

2. What does Burke hope will be the result of his "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) Readers will apply principles of taste and passion to the otherwise severe sciences.
(b) Readers will be well-versed in the scientific method.
(c) Readers will leave the sciences behind in favor of imagination and passion.
(d) Readers will learn to control their passions when in specific social settings.

3. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?
(a) To the will.
(b) To the imagination.
(c) To the soul.
(d) To the passions.

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

5. What, according to Burke, is responsible for common deviations in natural taste?
(a) Confusion of the mind.
(b) Custom and habit.
(c) A willingness to deceive others.
(d) Humankind's natural curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"

3. What is the same in all humans, according to Burke?

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

5. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?

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