A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Sections I - VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do smells and tastes become sublime most effectively?
(a) When they occur when one is in a dreaming state.
(b) When moderated through narrative and description.
(c) When mediated through art.
(d) When combined with eating and drinking.

2. What examples does Burke use to illustrate authority vs. affection?
(a) Statesmen and artists.
(b) Fathers and mothers.
(c) Dogs and cats.
(d) The rich and the poor.

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

4. Why, according to Burke, is the idea of God sublime?
(a) Because the notion of so much power overwhelms the understanding.
(b) Because the love generated in one's soul is all-consuming.
(c) Because the intellectual response is weighty and considerable.
(d) Because the idea itself is not describable in words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burke define "magnificence?"

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

3. Why, according to Burke, is proportion not the cause of beauty in animals?

4. How does beauty act upon the human mind?

5. Who was Campanella, and for what was he famous?

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