View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Burke, what will the result be of the long, close study of an object?
(a) A decreased interest in the object.
(b) A decreased feeling of pleasure.
(c) An increased sensibility of taste.
(d) An increased sense of anxiety.

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

4. What problem does Burke see with the contemporary notion of "taste?"
(a) It's principles have not been made uniform.
(b) Everyone pays too much attention to taste and not enough attention to reason.
(c) Nobody Burke knows seems to have taste.
(d) The concept of taste is misunderstood and badly defined.

5. Why, according to Burke, do we delight in the tragedies of others?
(a) This is a function of sympathy instilled in us by our Creator.
(b) We are happy we are not the victims.
(c) All humans have a sadistic streak.
(d) There is little else in the world in which to delight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into which two classes does Burke group the passions of society?

2. What is the state between pleasure and pain, according to Burke?

3. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?

4. Why is imitation important, according to Burke?

5. What does Burke assert is necessary for the success of "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 431 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample