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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sections I - VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burke define sympathy?
(a) As a sort of emotional substitution between people or through art.
(b) As an unnecessary show of weakness that will cause pain.
(c) As a painful realization, and reasoned acceptance, of one's humanity .
(d) As a desirable state of mind reached by looking inward towards one's own soul.

2. What attracts people to one another, argues Burke?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Personality.
(d) Intelligence.

3. What is another word for the "fitness" of objects about which Burke writes?
(a) Aptitude.
(b) Utility.
(c) Health.
(d) Condition.

4. To which other passions is the idea of power closely related, according to Burke?
(a) Curiosity and novelty.
(b) Love and desire.
(c) Fear and terror.
(d) Joy and delight.

5. How does Burke define "love?"
(a) As the sexual attraction between sexes.
(b) As the satisfaction the mind feels upon contemplating the beautiful.
(c) As the boldest and most striking of all the passions.
(d) As the natural state of human relationships with one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burke note about youth, as related to taste?

2. What does Burke envision would be the result of fitness trumping beauty in the human species?

3. How does Burke define "magnificence?"

4. Burke asserts that vastness of dimension is as sublime as:

5. Why is suddenness sublime, according to Burke?

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