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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Campanella, and for what was he famous?
(a) He was a statesman famous for brokering deals between opposing parties.
(b) He was a soldier-sailor famous for acts of bravery at a crucial battle.
(c) He was an artist and poet famous for his depictions of ancient Greece and Rome.
(d) He was a monk famous for mimicking the facial expressions of others.

2. Which example does Burke use to support his argument regarding the nature of darkness?
(a) A person who grew afraid of his own shadow.
(b) A blind boy who regains his sight.
(c) A solar eclipse that frightened townsfolk.
(d) A dim, murky forest fraught with danger.

3. What statement summarizes the real effects of fitness, as described by Burke?
(a) The purpose of fitness is to describe the differences between the species of animals and plants.
(b) God gave each thing a particular fitness to make us fully understand and marvel at the mysteries of the world.
(c) Fitness is designed to incite introspection and excite people into socially-important action.
(d) There can be nothing sublime without being fit or beautiful.

4. How does Burke define "beauty?"
(a) As a necessary ingredient of the sublime.
(b) As the ultimate object of human desires.
(c) As those qualities which inspire love or a similar passion.
(d) As a worthless obsession of a vapid society.

5. How does the view of the object in question 8 become sublime by affecting the mind?
(a) By increasing the intensity of the image through succession.
(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 overwhelming the judgment and the imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NOT make certain objects or experiences affect us the way they do?

2. How does this body part produce the sense of the sublime, according to Burke?

3. What is Burke's argument about the relation of danger to the sublime?

4. Which of the following does Burke assert about beauty?

5. How does Burke separate natural and artificial objects?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of sounds, smells, and tastes can be considered beautiful, according to Burke?

2. What does Burke assert affects the mind besides natural causes, and how does this thing relate to natural causes?

3. Why, according to Burke, are humans readily affected by the passions of others?

4. What two examples does Burke use to illustrate the sublimity of succession in visual objects? Upon which principles does Burke assert these two examples operate?

5. Summarize the difference between Locke's idea of the nature of darkness and Burke's idea of the nature of darkness.

6. How does Burke define proportion, and under which human faculty does it fall?

7. How can pain be a cause of delight, in everyday life and in effecting the sublime?

8. What is beautiful in feeling, according to Burke?

9. Why, according to Burke, is proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetation and animals?

10. Why are small objects more suited to the beautiful and large objects more suitable to the sublime, according to Burke?

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