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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Sections I - IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?
(a) His book will challenge their core values.
(b) His book will contain faults.
(c) His book may be construed as unpatriotic.
(d) His book may make them angry.

2. What will be Burke's focus in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) The beautiful and sublime as they relate to contemporary politics.
(b) The beautiful and sublime as they appear in Milton's _Paradise Lost_.
(c) The full meanings and social impacts of the beautiful and sublime.
(d) The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and sublime.

3. What examples does Burke use to argue that some sights are pleasurable to all people?
(a) Objects he opines are among the ugliest animal species.
(b) Objects he and others he knows think are beautiful.
(c) Objects he says can only be found in country estates.
(d) Objects or ideas that he argues are morally repugnant.

4. What example does Burke offer to show his ideas on the effects of tragedy?
(a) A mass-murderer terrorizing the city.
(b) A mother and father losing their infant to an early death.
(c) The shocking regicide of the monarch.
(d) London being destroyed by an earthquake.

5. Into which two classes does Burke group the passions of society?
(a) General society and the society of the sexes.
(b) The liberal society and the conservative society.
(c) High- and low-society, based upon the class into which one is born.
(d) The societies of the educated and of the ignorant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two aspects comprise Burke's "artificial infinity?"

2. What, according to Burke, affects the passions and most incites admiration?

3. Why, according to Burke, is the idea of God sublime?

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

5. Which medium does Burke feel arouses the passions most effectively?

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