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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, according to Burke, is the first and most simple emotion of the human mind?
(a) Fear, or terror.
(b) Indifference, or lassitude.
(c) Hunger, or longing.
(d) Curiosity, or novelty.

3. What does Burke assert about sensory observation?
(a) That sensory observation is of little importance to his discussion.
(b) That divergent sensory observations of the same object are natural.
(c) That all people sense things in pretty much the same way.
(d) That sensory input varies widely between individuals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why, according to Burke, do we delight in the tragedies of others?

3. According to Burke, what will the result be of the long, close study of an object?

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

5. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?

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