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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burke define sympathy?
(a) As a painful realization, and reasoned acceptance, of one's humanity .
(b) As a sort of emotional substitution between people or through art.
(c) As an unnecessary show of weakness that will cause pain.
(d) As a desirable state of mind reached by looking inward towards one's own soul.

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

3. 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.

4. What will be Burke's focus in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) The beautiful and sublime as they appear in Milton's _Paradise Lost_.
(b) The full meanings and social impacts of the beautiful and sublime.
(c) The beautiful and sublime as they relate to contemporary politics.
(d) The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and sublime.

5. What is the general reason Burke wrote the book, as stated in the First Preface?
(a) Burke was initially at a loss to coherently describe the sublime and beautiful.
(b) Burke wanted to make money with the publication of this treatise.
(c) Burke was taking dictation on the subject from his longtime mentor.
(d) Burke completely disagreed with all else written on the sublime and the beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two main passions connect with this creative power of the mind?

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

4. What is the same in all humans, according to Burke?

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

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