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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Burke's argument for the existence of the passion of ambition?
(a) Ambition incites in people the drive to improve and excel so society will not stagnate.
(b) Ambition incites jealousy and envy, which drive people to become violent.
(c) Ambition is the manifestation of the natural hierarchy of low humans to high humans.
(d) Ambition forces people to look within and question their inner selves.

3. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?
(a) Because the rest of life is terrible, and there must be at least one pleasurable thing in life.
(b) To connect humans and animals in the realm of the senses.
(c) To incite people to engage in it, since it is necessary to survival.
(d) Because without some form of pleasure, society would devolve into warfare.

4. What example does Burke offer to show his ideas on the effects of tragedy?
(a) London being destroyed by an earthquake.
(b) A mass-murderer terrorizing the city.
(c) A mother and father losing their infant to an early death.
(d) The shocking regicide of the monarch.

5. Into which two classes does Burke group the passions of society?
(a) The societies of the educated and of the ignorant.
(b) The liberal society and the conservative society.
(c) High- and low-society, based upon the class into which one is born.
(d) General society and the society of the sexes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"

2. Burke believes that "taste" arises from:

3. What problem does Burke see with the contemporary notion of "taste?"

4. What example does Burke use to demonstrate that differing tastes stem from the same basic root?

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

(see the answer key)

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