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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What large part of text has Burke added between the First and Second editions?
(a) An Introduction on Taste.
(b) An Autobiographical Epilogue.
(c) A Publisher's Foreword.
(d) An Afterword on Terror.

2. How does Burke define "grief?"
(a) As the most desirable of the sensibilities because it is strong.
(b) As the natural state of relationships between all people.
(c) As that feeling when an object is so lost that one can never enjoy it again.
(d) As one of many types of positive pain.

3. Why are certain drugs enjoyable, according to Burke?
(a) Because people become accustomed to their pleasurable effects.
(b) Because the users only take them for their healthy properties.
(c) Because the users have no idea of the potential harm of the drug.
(d) Because people can get them for a low cost.

4. What is the same in all humans, according to Burke?
(a) The capacity for feeling.
(b) The general intelligence quotient.
(c) The standards of reason and taste.
(d) The curiosity and wonder for nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"

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

3. Why, as Burke argues, are humans "more inclined to belief than to incredulity?"

4. To which human faculty does "taste" belong?

5. Why is imitation important, according to Burke?

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