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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 is Burke's general plan of action for this book?
(a) It will posit wild, untested new ideas.
(b) It will refute all other theories of the sublime.
(c) It will be a methodical study.
(d) It will focus only on human society.

2. 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 origins of our ideas of the beautiful and sublime.
(c) The full meanings and social impacts of the beautiful and sublime.
(d) The beautiful and sublime as they relate to contemporary politics.

3. What natural powers in man does Burke say relate to external objects?
(a) The judgment, emotions, and the will.
(b) The senses, imagination, and judgment.
(c) The senses, passions, and the will.
(d) The imagination, passions, and the senses.

4. 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 figments of human imagination that help us explain our world.
(d) They are each of a positive nature, not dependent upon each other.

5. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"
(a) It is natural and common to all people.
(b) It is the province of the refined upper-class.
(c) It is the sole means of valuing an individual.
(d) It is unnecessary for discussion about beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Burke believes that "taste" arises from:

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

3. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?

4. According to Burke, what will the result be of the long, close study of an object?

5. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?

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