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

2. How does Burke define "grief?"
(a) As the natural state of relationships between all people.
(b) As that feeling when an object is so lost that one can never enjoy it again.
(c) As one of many types of positive pain.
(d) As the most desirable of the sensibilities because it is strong.

3. What are sources of the "sublime?"
(a) Anything that promotes pleasure.
(b) Anything that causes the subject to think deeply.
(c) Anything that excites terror, pain, or danger.
(d) Anything of beauty.

4. What term does Burke use to reflect uncertainty relative to the sublime?
(a) "Random."
(b) "Intermitting."
(c) "Steady."
(d) "Harsh."

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 art of social conversation.
(d) The passions and the understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attracts people to one another, argues Burke?

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

3. How do smells and tastes become sublime most effectively?

4. What, according to Burke, is the state of a man whose teeth are set and whose forehead is wrinkled?

5. What smells or tastes are, according to Burke, the only smells or tastes capable of producing grand sensations?

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