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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two aspects comprise Burke's "artificial infinity?"
(a) Terror and greatness.
(b) Strength and power.
(c) Succession and uniformity.
(d) Curiosity and desire.

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

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

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

5. According to Burke, why is procreation pleasurable?
(a) To connect humans and animals in the realm of the senses.
(b) Because the rest of life is terrible, and there must be at least one pleasurable thing in life.
(c) To incite people to engage in it, since it is necessary to survival.
(d) Because without some form of pleasure, society would devolve into warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burke warn his readers about in the Second Preface?

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

3. In what year was "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" first published?

4. What is this creative power of the mind incapable of producing?

5. What does Burke assert about sensory observation?

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