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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. Which of the following does Burke assert about beauty?
(a) That it has nothing to do with proportion.
(b) That beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(c) That proportion is critical to it.
(d) That it combines with proportion to create the sublime.

2. How does Burke define "proportion?"
(a) It is an average of height, breadth, and width.
(b) It refers to the amount of food a healthy person eats.
(c) It is the measure of relative quantity.
(d) It illustrates the properties of geometries.

3. What recognizable figure does Burke term a "forced analogy?"
(a) An ornate cathedral built in the Renaissance.
(b) A reproduction sculpture of a wounded gladiator.
(c) A painting of a mysterious, smiling woman.
(d) A sketch of a man outstretched within a circle.

4. What is John Locke's theory concerning darkness?
(a) Darkness must be feared.
(b) Darkness represents human sin.
(c) Darkness is not naturally terrifying.
(d) Darkness is necessary to our ideas of death.

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 gradually diminishing in intensity until it is almost not visible.
(c) By presenting the viewer with a skewed image of reality.
(d) By overwhelming the judgment and the imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Locke's general theory of language, as related by Burke?

2. How does beauty act upon the human mind?

3. What does Burke criticize about the patrons of proportion?

4. To what does Burke tie his own opinion of darkness and the sublime?

5. What has Burke observed in himself regarding the passions and the body, in Section IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. In his discussion of proportionality among human figures, what censure does Burke lay upon advocates proportion-as-beauty?

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

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

4. Briefly summarize the three classes of words that Burke identifies.

5. How does Burke define deformity?

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

7. What does Burke mean by "fitness," and why is fitness not, according to him, the cause of beauty?

8. What example does Burke use to demonstrate that perfection is not the cause of beauty?

9. According to Burke, why is the taste of sweetness pleasant, and how does he decide this?

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

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