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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction On Taste Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Burke use to demonstrate that differing tastes stem from the same basic root?
(a) The comparison of two historical moments.
(b) The description of pretty ladies in a drawing room.
(c) Two different types of poetry.
(d) A comparison of two breeds of a horse.

2. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"
(a) It is the sole means of valuing an individual.
(b) It is unnecessary for discussion about beauty.
(c) It is the province of the refined upper-class.
(d) It is natural and common to all people.

3. What examples does Burke use to argue that some sights are pleasurable to all people?
(a) Objects he opines are among the ugliest animal species.
(b) Objects he says can only be found in country estates.
(c) Objects he and others he knows think are beautiful.
(d) Objects or ideas that he argues are morally repugnant.

4. How do all emotions and passions affect the human mind?
(a) By forcing the mind to yield to the heart.
(b) With unpredictable, greatly varying effects.
(c) By natural, uniform, predictable principles.
(d) With scarring, searing effects.

5. What, according to Burke, is the cause of wrong "taste" in a person?
(a) An overabundance of passion.
(b) A failure of the imagination.
(c) A failure of propriety.
(d) A defect of judgment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the same in all humans, according to Burke?

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

3. What does Burke want "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" to accomplish?

4. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?

5. What does Burke assert about sensory observation?

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