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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 does Burke envision would be the result of fitness trumping beauty in the human species?
(a) The general intelligence quotient would rise dramatically.
(b) Individuals would find it difficult to get married and begin families.
(c) All people would be healthy, regardless of their looks.
(d) Men would be considered more beautiful than women.

2. Which two effects are often combined and alternated under the passions mentioned in question 7?
(a) Loathing and lust.
(b) Strength and weakness.
(c) Contentment and consternation.
(d) Desire and frigidity.

3. What example does Burke use to demonstrate that differing tastes stem from the same basic root?
(a) A comparison of two breeds of a horse.
(b) The comparison of two historical moments.
(c) Two different types of poetry.
(d) The description of pretty ladies in a drawing room.

4. What, according to Burke, affects the passions and most incites admiration?
(a) That with which we are closely acquainted.
(b) That which can be explained in lay terms.
(c) That which is human made and manufactured.
(d) That which we know little or nothing about.

5. What has Burke observed in himself regarding the passions and the body, in Section IV?
(a) That he relates well to others who are in the same frame of mind as he.
(b) That he found his mind in a certain state when he adopts a certain facial expression.
(c) That he is particularly susceptible to the physical effects of a refined sensibility.
(d) That he has never been inclined to allow his emotions to influence his actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Burke, is responsible for common deviations in natural taste?

2. What does Burke assert is present in every religion, to some degree?

3. What does Burke assert is necessary for the success of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

4. How does Burke define "beauty?"

5. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?

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