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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Burke, is responsible for common deviations in natural taste?
(a) Custom and habit.
(b) A willingness to deceive others.
(c) Humankind's natural curiosity.
(d) Confusion of the mind.

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

3. How does Burke use the word "delight?"
(a) To demonstrate his feelings.
(b) To describe the natural state of humanity.
(c) To equate that feeling with pleasure.
(d) To describe the feeling one gets when pain is removed.

4. How do all emotions and passions affect the human mind?
(a) By natural, uniform, predictable principles.
(b) With unpredictable, greatly varying effects.
(c) With scarring, searing effects.
(d) By forcing the mind to yield to the heart.

5. What problem does Burke find with merely defining a term like "taste?"
(a) The process of defining the term may go on forever, and become overwhelming.
(b) Taste is only an idea, not a reality, so it cannot be defined or described.
(c) People may disagree with and contest his definition.
(d) There is a danger of confining and limiting the term to our present understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?

2. What are sources of the "sublime?"

3. What natural powers in man does Burke say relate to external objects?

4. What, according to Burke, is the first and most simple emotion of the human mind?

5. What does Burke assert is necessary for the success of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

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