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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. How does Burke define the beautiful in feeling?
(a) That which can be simultaneously seen and smelled.
(b) That which highly arouses the emotions.
(c) That which is roughly textured.
(d) That which is pleasant to the touch.

2. How does Burke separate natural and artificial objects?
(a) By separating the effects which they have on a person.
(b) By asserting that the natural always prevails over the artificial.
(c) By categorizing properties of nature and artifice in a long treatise.
(d) By claiming to distinguish nature and artifice as it pertains to humans.

3. How should the eye move, in order to qualify as beautiful, according to Burke?
(a) Rapidly and avidly.
(b) Suddenly and jerkily.
(c) Upward and to the right.
(d) Slowly and languidly.

4. According to Burke, what parts of the mind do beautiful things engage, and how?
(a) Our defenses, through a sense of mistrust.
(b) Our hearts, through a sense of loveliness.
(c) Our fears, through a sense of terror.
(d) Our dreams, through a sense of wonder.

5. How does Burke use the word "delight?"
(a) To demonstrate his feelings.
(b) To describe the feeling one gets when pain is removed.
(c) To describe the natural state of humanity.
(d) To equate that feeling with pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burke expressly wish to discuss in this part of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

2. What is this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?

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

4. To what effect does Burke use the example of the Turkish emperor?

5. What is the sole difference Burke identifies between the passions mentioned in question 7?

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