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

2. To which other passions is the idea of power closely related, according to Burke?
(a) Fear and terror.
(b) Joy and delight.
(c) Curiosity and novelty.
(d) Love and desire.

3. To what effect does Burke use the example of the Turkish emperor?
(a) To prove the existence of innate knowledge.
(b) To demonstrate the barbarity of the Turks.
(c) To question the validity of theories on sculpture.
(d) To illustrate the difference between taste and knowledge.

4. What examples does Burke use to prove that human proportionality does not necessarily equal human beauty?
(a) Trees and flowers.
(b) Lyric and rhyme.
(c) Learning and habit.
(d) Painting and sculpture.

5. What example does Burke use to show that pain can be a source of pleasure?
(a) Indolence and exercise.
(b) Drunkenness and being hungover.
(c) Hunger and fulfillment.
(d) The thrill of fighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the general privations Burke lists?

2. Which example does Burke use in his discussion in Section VIII about infinity?

3. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?

4. Where, besides in humans, has Burke observed the effects of the passions mentioned in question 133?

5. What problem does Burke see with the contemporary notion of "taste?"

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