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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?
(a) His book may be construed as unpatriotic.
(b) His book will challenge their core values.
(c) His book will contain faults.
(d) His book may make them angry.

4. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"
(a) Because belief engages the imagination pleasantly, while incredulity is naturally negative.
(b) Because believing something is easy, whereas not believing is more difficult.
(c) Because God is born in all of us, so we have a natural inclination to believe in him.
(d) Because believing makes it easier to get along with others in the social-contract model of society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?

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

3. What examples does Burke use to prove that people agree upon sensory observations?

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

5. What, according to Burke, is responsible for common deviations in natural taste?

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