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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction On Taste Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which method of teaching does Burke think best?
(a) Allowing the learner to investigate the subject.
(b) Referring obliquely to the subject in conversation with the learner.
(c) Lecturing the learner on the subject.
(d) Testing the learner on the subject.

2. How do all emotions and passions affect the human mind?
(a) With scarring, searing effects.
(b) By natural, uniform, predictable principles.
(c) By forcing the mind to yield to the heart.
(d) With unpredictable, greatly varying effects.

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

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

5. What is the general reason Burke wrote the book, as stated in the First Preface?
(a) Burke wanted to make money with the publication of this treatise.
(b) Burke was initially at a loss to coherently describe the sublime and beautiful.
(c) Burke was taking dictation on the subject from his longtime mentor.
(d) Burke completely disagreed with all else written on the sublime and the beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem does Burke see with the contemporary notion of "taste?"

3. What example does Burke use to demonstrate that differing tastes stem from the same basic root?

4. What problem does Burke find with merely defining a term like "taste?"

5. What does Burke term the "creative power" of the mind?

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