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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burke define sympathy?
(a) As a desirable state of mind reached by looking inward towards one's own soul.
(b) As a painful realization, and reasoned acceptance, of one's humanity .
(c) As an unnecessary show of weakness that will cause pain.
(d) As a sort of emotional substitution between people or through art.

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

3. How does Burke define pain and pleasure?
(a) They are necessary to each other and cannot be separated.
(b) They are the only essential qualities about which people are concerned.
(c) They are each of a positive nature, not dependent upon each other.
(d) They are figments of human imagination that help us explain our world.

4. Why, according to Burke, do we delight in the tragedies of others?
(a) This is a function of sympathy instilled in us by our Creator.
(b) All humans have a sadistic streak.
(c) There is little else in the world in which to delight.
(d) We are happy we are not the victims.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Burke's argument for the existence of the passion of ambition?

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

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

5. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?

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