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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) Confusion.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Anger.
(d) Joy.

2. Which passion belongs under the heading of "self-preservation?"
(a) Sadness.
(b) Desire.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pain.

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

4. Why does Burke offer a second edition of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) He realizes that he could make more money selling a second edition.
(b) He wishes to expand and further illustrate his theories.
(c) He wishes to directly challenge the criticism of the first edition.
(d) He wishes to change and contradict his own views.

5. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?
(a) Picturesque and picaresque.
(b) Fear and terror.
(c) Liberty and patriotism.
(d) Sublime and beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burke define sympathy?

2. What attracts people to one another, argues Burke?

3. What is this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?

4. What example does Burke offer to show his ideas on the effects of tragedy?

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

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