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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What examples does Burke use to prove that people agree upon sensory observations?
(a) Feelings of sharp or soft.
(b) The pleasantness or unpleasantness of certain thoughts.
(c) Sudden, loud sounds as opposed to quiet, soft sounds.
(d) The tastes of sweet, bitter, and sour.

2. According to Burke, who is most capable of beauty?
(a) The female sex.
(b) The male sex.
(c) Rustic peasants.
(d) Elegant aristocrats.

3. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"
(a) Because believing makes it easier to get along with others in the social-contract model of society.
(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 belief engages the imagination pleasantly, while incredulity is naturally negative.

4. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"
(a) The sense of distinction that the higher social classes have above the lower social classes.
(b) The notions of personal style that refined, elegant people display when in public.
(c) The sense of taste located on the tongue, which distinguish sweet, salty, bitter, and sour flavors.
(d) Those faculties of the mind which form judgments upon the work of the imagination and the elegant arts.

5. What smells or tastes are, according to Burke, the only smells or tastes capable of producing grand sensations?
(a) Saltiness and flowery odors.
(b) Bitterness and terrible stenches.
(c) Sweetness and spicy odors.
(d) Sourness and tangy smells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Campanella, and for what was he famous?

2. In Burke's opinion, at what depiction do painters most notably fail?

3. What kinds of sounds does Burke say can be sublime?

4. Why, according to Burke, is proportion not the cause of beauty in animals?

5. In what year was "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" first published?

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