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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. Burke believes that "taste" arises from:
(a) Reflection.
(b) Nature.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Passion.

2. What large part of text has Burke added between the First and Second editions?
(a) A Publisher's Foreword.
(b) An Afterword on Terror.
(c) An Introduction on Taste.
(d) An Autobiographical Epilogue.

3. What, according to Burke, is most striking to this creative power of mind?
(a) Arguments of fairness in disagreements among social unequals.
(b) The potential value of an object.
(c) Comparing resemblances between or imitations of two distinct objects.
(d) The quality of laughter in human communication.

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

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

2. Which method of teaching does Burke think best?

3. What does Burke hope will be the result of his "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

4. How do all emotions and passions affect the human mind?

5. To what effect does Burke use the example of the Turkish emperor?

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