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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Burke define "blackness?"
2. How does Burke define the beautiful in feeling?
3. Why, according to Burke, is proportion not the cause of beauty in animals?
4. What sense does Burke use to illustrate the artificial infinite?
5. What example does Burke use to illustrate his idea of gradual variation?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What, according to Burke, is the primary strength of poetry?
3. What is unique about the historical figure of Campanella, as related by Burke?
4. How does Burke define ugliness, and how does Burke relate ugliness to beauty?
5. According to Burke, why is the taste of sweetness pleasant, and how does he decide this?
6. Paraphrase Burke's definition of beauty and the distinction he makes between love and lust or desire.
7. Why, according to Burke, are humans readily affected by the passions of others?
8. What is beautiful in feeling, according to Burke?
9. To what effect does Burke use the example of Campanella?
10. How does Burke define proportion, and under which human faculty does it fall?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Paraphrase Burke's definition of beauty and the distinction he makes between love and lust or desire. What relation does beauty have to the sublime? Through which faculties does one experience, understand, and interpret that which is beautiful? How are love and lust/desire different, and can they ever coexist?
Essay Topic 2
How does Burke define proportion, and under which human faculty does it fall? Why, according to Burke, is proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetation and animals? What examples does Burke use to prove this point? In his discussion of proportionality among human figures, what censure does Burke lay upon advocates of proportion-as-beauty? What influence does the theme of nature vs. artifice have upon Burke's perceptions of proportion and beauty?
Essay Topic 3
Summarize Locke's idea of the nature of darkness and Burke's idea of the nature of darkness. Where do they differ? Why does Burke think differently than Locke, and what examples does he use to support his opinion? How does darkness affect the body and the mind, according to Burke? Do you think the cultural associations we have with darkness (the general theme of it and the common things it symbolizes) can be relevant to our view of darkness, in addition to or instead of Burke's opinion of darkness' nature?
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