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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Sections I - IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two aspects comprise Burke's "artificial infinity?"
(a) Strength and power.
(b) Terror and greatness.
(c) Curiosity and desire.
(d) Succession and uniformity.

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

3. How does Burke define pain and pleasure?
(a) They are the only essential qualities about which people are concerned.
(b) They are necessary to each other and cannot be separated.
(c) They are each of a positive nature, not dependent upon each other.
(d) They are figments of human imagination that help us explain our world.

4. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?
(a) To the imagination.
(b) To the will.
(c) To the soul.
(d) To the passions.

5. How does Burke define sympathy?
(a) As a sort of emotional substitution between people or through art.
(b) As a painful realization, and reasoned acceptance, of one's humanity .
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the general privations Burke lists?

2. Burke believes that "taste" arises from:

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

4. Why, according to Burke, do we delight in the tragedies of others?

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

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