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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burke define "proportion?"
(a) It illustrates the properties of geometries.
(b) It is an average of height, breadth, and width.
(c) It is the measure of relative quantity.
(d) It refers to the amount of food a healthy person eats.

2. What example does Burke use to show that pain can be a source of pleasure?
(a) Indolence and exercise.
(b) Hunger and fulfillment.
(c) Drunkenness and being hungover.
(d) The thrill of fighting.

3. What passion does Burke identify as most effectively robing the mind of reasoning?
(a) Fear.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Disgust.

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

5. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"
(a) The notions of personal style that refined, elegant people display when in public.
(b) The sense of taste located on the tongue, which distinguish sweet, salty, bitter, and sour flavors.
(c) The sense of distinction that the higher social classes have above the lower social classes.
(d) Those faculties of the mind which form judgments upon the work of the imagination and the elegant arts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are sources of the "sublime?"

2. Which does Burke's definition of "grace" include?

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

4. How does Burke use the word "delight?"

5. How does Burke define sympathy?

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