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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?
(a) Fear and terror.
(b) Sublime and beauty.
(c) Picturesque and picaresque.
(d) Liberty and patriotism.

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

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

4. What, according to Burke, is the first and most simple emotion of the human mind?
(a) Fear, or terror.
(b) Curiosity, or novelty.
(c) Indifference, or lassitude.
(d) Hunger, or longing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burke define "grief?"

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

3. When might the sublime be delightful?

4. What does Burke assert is necessary for the success of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

5. What large part of text has Burke added between the First and Second editions?

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