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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. Why is imitation important, according to Burke?
(a) It is how we try to get closer to God.
(b) It facilitates comedy in the theater.
(c) It forms our manners and opinions.
(d) It allows us to learn in school.

2. Why is grief a part of pleasure, according to Burke?
(a) Because grief reminds the individual that life continues.
(b) Because grief always gives way to laughter.
(c) Because people actively and willfully grieve.
(d) Because all endings are beginnings.

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 figments of human imagination that help us explain our world.
(d) They are each of a positive nature, not dependent upon each other.

4. What literary example does Burke give as representative of magnificence?
(a) A passage from Shakespeare's _Henry IV_.
(b) A folk ballad from Scotland.
(c) One of Donne's Holy Sonnets.
(d) An excerpt from Milton's _Paradise Lost_.

5. Which two effects are often combined and alternated under the passions mentioned in question 7?
(a) Contentment and consternation.
(b) Loathing and lust.
(c) Strength and weakness.
(d) Desire and frigidity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which instance are feelings productive of the sublime?

2. What is the effect of opiates or liquors, according to Burke?

3. How does Burke define "grief?"

4. What is Burke's argument about the relation of danger to the sublime?

5. Burke opines that buildings that are great only in dimension are:

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