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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. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?
(a) Liberty and patriotism.
(b) Picturesque and picaresque.
(c) Sublime and beauty.
(d) Fear and terror.

2. What problem does Burke see with the contemporary notion of "taste?"
(a) Everyone pays too much attention to taste and not enough attention to reason.
(b) The concept of taste is misunderstood and badly defined.
(c) Nobody Burke knows seems to have taste.
(d) It's principles have not been made uniform.

3. Why are certain drugs enjoyable, according to Burke?
(a) Because people can get them for a low cost.
(b) Because the users only take them for their healthy properties.
(c) Because people become accustomed to their pleasurable effects.
(d) Because the users have no idea of the potential harm of the drug.

4. What does Burke hope will be the result of his "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) Readers will learn to control their passions when in specific social settings.
(b) Readers will apply principles of taste and passion to the otherwise severe sciences.
(c) Readers will leave the sciences behind in favor of imagination and passion.
(d) Readers will be well-versed in the scientific method.

5. Why, according to Burke, is the idea of God sublime?
(a) Because the notion of so much power overwhelms the understanding.
(b) Because the idea itself is not describable in words.
(c) Because the love generated in one's soul is all-consuming.
(d) Because the intellectual response is weighty and considerable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are sources of the "sublime?"

2. What does Burke assert about sensory observation?

3. How does Burke define solitude?

4. Into which two classes does Burke group the passions of society?

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

(see the answer key)

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