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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Burke personally observed about human beauty?
(a) That only a minority of people are not beautiful.
(b) That beauty is only skin-deep.
(c) That both beautiful and ugly people might be considered proportionate.
(d) That proportionality does indeed coincide with beauty.

2. What does Burke want "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" to accomplish?
(a) The Enquiry will be useful in schools.
(b) The Enquiry will disprove older theories.
(c) The Enquiry will teach people about nature.
(d) The Enquiry will open minds.

3. In Burke's opinion, at what depiction do painters most notably fail?
(a) The depiction of the sea.
(b) The depiction of lovers.
(c) The depiction of nobility.
(d) The depiction of hell.

4. To which human faculty does Burke opine proportion belongs?
(a) To the emotions.
(b) To the imagination.
(c) To the senses.
(d) To the understanding.

5. What kinds of sounds does Burke say can be sublime?
(a) Excessively loud sounds.
(b) Bright, quick sounds.
(c) Soft, murmuring sounds.
(d) Melodious sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Burke refer when he introduces physiognomy as part of beauty?

2. What are sources of the "sublime?"

3. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?

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

5. Which idea is more effective over the other in affecting the imagination, according to Burke?

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