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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 state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?
(a) Anger.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Joy.

2. How does Burke define "grief?"
(a) As one of many types of positive pain.
(b) As the most desirable of the sensibilities because it is strong.
(c) As the natural state of relationships between all people.
(d) As that feeling when an object is so lost that one can never enjoy it again.

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

4. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"
(a) The notions of personal style that refined, elegant people display when in public.
(b) Those faculties of the mind which form judgments upon the work of the imagination and the elegant arts.
(c) The sense of taste located on the tongue, which distinguish sweet, salty, bitter, and sour flavors.
(d) The sense of distinction that the higher social classes have above the lower social classes.

5. What is Burke's argument for the existence of the passion of ambition?
(a) Ambition incites jealousy and envy, which drive people to become violent.
(b) Ambition incites in people the drive to improve and excel so society will not stagnate.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?

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

3. How does Burke define pain and pleasure?

4. Into which two classes does Burke group the passions of society?

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

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