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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. What does NOT make certain objects or experiences affect us the way they do?
(a) Any natural power of the thing.
(b) Any associations we form around the thing.
(c) Any learning about the thing.
(d) Any strong memories regarding the thing.

2. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?
(a) Because without some form of pleasure, society would devolve into warfare.
(b) To incite people to engage in it, since it is necessary to survival.
(c) Because the rest of life is terrible, and there must be at least one pleasurable thing in life.
(d) To connect humans and animals in the realm of the senses.

3. What is the sole difference Burke identifies between the passions mentioned in question 7?
(a) One works on the mind through the body, and the other works on the body through the mind.
(b) One is a manifestation of the public sphere, but the other is solely a private passion.
(c) One is recognizable in men only, and the other is recognizable in women.
(d) One is a relic of the past, whereas the other is present in Burke's time.

4. How does Burke define "magnificence?"
(a) As a great profusion of things that are splendid or valuable in and of themselves.
(b) As that which requires magnification due to its miniscule size.
(c) As the power and might of a strong warrior or noble king.
(d) As all that delights the eye by shimmering and glittering.

5. What, according to Burke, must be utilized regularly lest it/they fall into disrepair?
(a) The skill of speaking another language.
(b) Dancing, fencing, and painting.
(c) The passions and the understanding.
(d) The art of social conversation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Burke define sympathy?

5. What does Burke expressly wish to discuss in this part of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

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