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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. Why are certain drugs enjoyable, according to Burke?
(a) Because the users only take them for their healthy properties.
(b) Because people can get them for a low cost.
(c) Because people become accustomed to their pleasurable effects.
(d) Because the users have no idea of the potential harm of the drug.

2. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?
(a) To the will.
(b) To the imagination.
(c) To the passions.
(d) To the soul.

3. What is this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?
(a) Anything truly new.
(b) Anything of great consequence.
(c) Anything passionate.
(d) Anything captivating.

4. What is Burke's general plan of action for this book?
(a) It will be a methodical study.
(b) It will focus only on human society.
(c) It will refute all other theories of the sublime.
(d) It will posit wild, untested new ideas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Burke offer a second edition of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

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

3. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"

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

5. What will be Burke's focus in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

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