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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Joy.

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

3. In what year was "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" first published?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1757.

4. What are sources of the "sublime?"
(a) Anything that promotes pleasure.
(b) Anything of beauty.
(c) Anything that excites terror, pain, or danger.
(d) Anything that causes the subject to think deeply.

5. What, according to Burke, is the cause of wrong "taste" in a person?
(a) An overabundance of passion.
(b) A defect of judgment.
(c) A failure of the imagination.
(d) A failure of propriety.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which passion belongs under the heading of "self-preservation?"

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

3. What, according to Burke, is the first and most simple emotion of the human mind?

4. What does Burke want "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" to accomplish?

5. Which two ideas does Burke often find confused with one another?

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