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

2. What caveat does Burke offer to his readers about "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) He is writing for political reasons geared to sway minds.
(b) He bears no resemblance to any kind of contemporary scientific method.
(c) He chooses to omit most of what he truly thinks and feels regarding the sublime and beautiful.
(d) He can only study the immediately sensible qualities of the sublime and the beautiful.

3. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?
(a) To the will.
(b) To the passions.
(c) To the imagination.
(d) To the soul.

4. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?
(a) His book will contain faults.
(b) His book may make them angry.
(c) His book will challenge their core values.
(d) His book may be construed as unpatriotic.

5. How does Burke define sympathy?
(a) As a sort of emotional substitution between people or through art.
(b) As an unnecessary show of weakness that will cause pain.
(c) As a desirable state of mind reached by looking inward towards one's own soul.
(d) As a painful realization, and reasoned acceptance, of one's humanity .

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are certain drugs enjoyable, according to Burke?

3. How does Burke define "grief?"

4. What does Burke note about youth, as related to taste?

5. What does Burke assert about sensory observation?

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