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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 this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?
(a) Anything truly new.
(b) Anything captivating.
(c) Anything passionate.
(d) Anything of great consequence.

2. What does Burke mean by the word "Taste?"
(a) The sense of distinction that the higher social classes have above the lower social classes.
(b) The notions of personal style that refined, elegant people display when in public.
(c) The sense of taste located on the tongue, which distinguish sweet, salty, bitter, and sour flavors.
(d) Those faculties of the mind which form judgments upon the work of the imagination and the elegant arts.

3. When might the sublime be delightful?
(a) When one experiences it from a safe distance.
(b) When one considers it intellectually.
(c) When it fills the entirety of one's being.
(d) When it truly threatens one's safety.

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

5. What does Burke note about youth, as related to taste?
(a) That sensory pleasure is great while judgment is inaccurate.
(b) That although judgments may not be sound, taste is excellent.
(c) That youth is the province of true wisdom.
(d) That innocence does not equal ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Burke define "grief?"

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

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

4. What will be Burke's focus in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

5. How does Burke define sympathy?

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