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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Burke use to illustrate his idea of gradual variation?
(a) The tones of a dimly-lit room.
(b) A boldly colored flower.
(c) The hazy shapes of a mountain range.
(d) The neckline of a beautiful woman.

2. What does Burke assert is present in every religion, to some degree?
(a) A prophet.
(b) A salutary fear.
(c) A mode of forgiveness.
(d) A single deity.

3. What kind of colors are unfit to produce what Burke terms "grand images?"
(a) Earth tones.
(b) Jewel tones.
(c) Bold colors.
(d) Cheerful colors.

4. What type of word are man, castle, horse, etc., as defined by Burke?
(a) Compounded abstract words.
(b) Aggregate words.
(c) Imagistic words.
(d) Simple abstract words.

5. How does the view of the object in question 8 become sublime by affecting the mind?
(a) By overwhelming the judgment and the imagination.
(b) By presenting the viewer with a skewed image of reality.
(c) By gradually diminishing in intensity until it is almost not visible.
(d) By increasing the intensity of the image through succession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"

2. What, according to Burke, must be utilized regularly lest it/they fall into disrepair?

3. Why does Burke include a section on the effect of words in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

4. What size of objects does Burke consider "beautiful?"

5. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"

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