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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 large part of text has Burke added between the First and Second editions?
(a) An Autobiographical Epilogue.
(b) An Afterword on Terror.
(c) A Publisher's Foreword.
(d) An Introduction on Taste.

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

3. What, according to Burke, is the cause of wrong "taste" in a person?
(a) A failure of the imagination.
(b) An overabundance of passion.
(c) A defect of judgment.
(d) A failure of propriety.

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

5. Burke believes that "taste" arises from:
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Reflection.
(c) Nature.
(d) Passion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Burke assert is necessary for the success of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

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

4. What is Burke's general plan of action for this book?

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

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