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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?
(a) Joy.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Anger.

2. What statement summarizes the real effects of fitness, as described by Burke?
(a) God gave each thing a particular fitness to make us fully understand and marvel at the mysteries of the world.
(b) The purpose of fitness is to describe the differences between the species of animals and plants.
(c) Fitness is designed to incite introspection and excite people into socially-important action.
(d) There can be nothing sublime without being fit or beautiful.

3. How does Burke define "love?"
(a) As the boldest and most striking of all the passions.
(b) As the sexual attraction between sexes.
(c) As the satisfaction the mind feels upon contemplating the beautiful.
(d) As the natural state of human relationships with one another.

4. What has Burke personally observed about human beauty?
(a) That proportionality does indeed coincide with beauty.
(b) That only a minority of people are not beautiful.
(c) That both beautiful and ugly people might be considered proportionate.
(d) That beauty is only skin-deep.

5. To what does Burke tie his own opinion of darkness and the sublime?
(a) Desire.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Intellectualism.
(d) Self-preservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What passage does Burke offer as an example of the effect of words?

2. What does Burke say is the primary passion ignited by the sublime?

3. What kind of colors are unfit to produce what Burke terms "grand images?"

4. How does Burke define "beauty?"

5. What has Burke observed in himself regarding the passions and the body, in Section IV?

(see the answer key)

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