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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 is the same in all humans, according to Burke?
(a) The capacity for feeling.
(b) The general intelligence quotient.
(c) The standards of reason and taste.
(d) The curiosity and wonder for nature.

2. In which instance are feelings productive of the sublime?
(a) When the feelings are of delight and joy.
(b) When the feelings are of love and desire.
(c) When the feelings are of pain or anguish.
(d) When the feelings are of confusion and depression.

3. How does Burke define "strength?"
(a) As "natural power."
(b) As "earned glory."
(c) As "wild freedom."
(d) As "careful concentration."

4. What does Burke note about youth, as related to taste?
(a) That although judgments may not be sound, taste is excellent.
(b) That sensory pleasure is great while judgment is inaccurate.
(c) That innocence does not equal ignorance.
(d) That youth is the province of true wisdom.

5. What quality of mind does Burke find in women that he thinks is analogous to fragility?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Forthrightness.
(c) Timidity.
(d) Vapidity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burke define "gradual variation?"

2. How does Burke use the word "delight?"

3. Why is grief a part of pleasure, according to Burke?

4. How should the eye move, in order to qualify as beautiful, according to Burke?

5. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?

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