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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Confusion.

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

3. What problem does Burke see with the contemporary notion of "taste?"
(a) The concept of taste is misunderstood and badly defined.
(b) Everyone pays too much attention to taste and not enough attention to reason.
(c) It's principles have not been made uniform.
(d) Nobody Burke knows seems to have taste.

4. What is this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?
(a) Anything of great consequence.
(b) Anything passionate.
(c) Anything captivating.
(d) Anything truly new.

5. How do smells and tastes become sublime most effectively?
(a) When mediated through art.
(b) When moderated through narrative and description.
(c) When combined with eating and drinking.
(d) When they occur when one is in a dreaming state.

6. Which method of teaching does Burke think best?
(a) Lecturing the learner on the subject.
(b) Allowing the learner to investigate the subject.
(c) Testing the learner on the subject.
(d) Referring obliquely to the subject in conversation with the learner.

7. According to Burke, what is more powerful than light at representing the sublime?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Water.
(c) Fire.
(d) Darkness.

8. What, according to Burke, is most striking to this creative power of mind?
(a) Comparing resemblances between or imitations of two distinct objects.
(b) The potential value of an object.
(c) Arguments of fairness in disagreements among social unequals.
(d) The quality of laughter in human communication.

9. How does Burke use the word "delight?"
(a) To demonstrate his feelings.
(b) To describe the natural state of humanity.
(c) To describe the feeling one gets when pain is removed.
(d) To equate that feeling with pleasure.

10. How does Burke define solitude?
(a) As a pleasurable enjoyment.
(b) As a welcome release.
(c) As a positive pain.
(d) As a necessary evil.

11. Why is suddenness sublime, according to Burke?
(a) Because the mind is suddenly put on its guard.
(b) Because the body's reaction is unpredictable.
(c) Because easy transitions are pleasant.
(d) Because that which is sudden is very interesting.

12. Which idea is more effective over the other in affecting the imagination, according to Burke?
(a) Shock value, rather than predictability.
(b) Refinement, rather than coarseness.
(c) Obscurity, rather than clarity.
(d) Originality, rather than imitation.

13. Why is grief a part of pleasure, according to Burke?
(a) Because people actively and willfully grieve.
(b) Because all endings are beginnings.
(c) Because grief reminds the individual that life continues.
(d) Because grief always gives way to laughter.

14. Burke opines that buildings that are great only in dimension are:
(a) Paragons of human imagination.
(b) Only deceptively large.
(c) Too simple and common to be sublime.
(d) The epitome of sublimity in architecture.

15. What does Burke want "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" to accomplish?
(a) The Enquiry will disprove older theories.
(b) The Enquiry will be useful in schools.
(c) The Enquiry will open minds.
(d) The Enquiry will teach people about nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Burke's general plan of action for this book?

2. What, according to Burke, is the first and most simple emotion of the human mind?

3. How does Burke define sympathy?

4. What colors appropriately represent the sublime?

5. What literary example does Burke give as representative of magnificence?

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