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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do sublime buildings look, according to Burke?
(a) Dark and gloomy.
(b) Architecturally balanced.
(c) Heavily built.
(d) Light and airy.

2. What does Burke use as a common, but bad, example of infinity?
(a) A cross.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A snake.
(d) An ocean.

3. What does Burke envision would be the result of fitness trumping beauty in the human species?
(a) All people would be healthy, regardless of their looks.
(b) Individuals would find it difficult to get married and begin families.
(c) The general intelligence quotient would rise dramatically.
(d) Men would be considered more beautiful than women.

4. How does Burke use the word "delight?"
(a) To describe the natural state of humanity.
(b) To equate that feeling with pleasure.
(c) To describe the feeling one gets when pain is removed.
(d) To demonstrate his feelings.

5. To what is deformity opposed, according to Burke?
(a) To the common or complete form.
(b) To the ideal of beauty.
(c) To the magnificence of the sublime.
(d) To perfect proportionality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"

2. What, according to Burke, affects the passions and most incites admiration?

3. What examples does Burke use to prove that people agree upon sensory observations?

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

5. What, according to Burke, is the cause of wrong "taste" in a person?

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