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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Burke note about youth, as related to taste?
(a) That although judgments may not be sound, taste is excellent.
(b) That youth is the province of true wisdom.
(c) That sensory pleasure is great while judgment is inaccurate.
(d) That innocence does not equal ignorance.

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

4. What is the same in all humans, according to Burke?
(a) The capacity for feeling.
(b) The standards of reason and taste.
(c) The general intelligence quotient.
(d) The curiosity and wonder for nature.

5. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Burke, is responsible for common deviations in natural taste?

2. In what year was "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" first published?

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

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, according to Burke, is most striking to this creative power of mind?

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