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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Burke personally observed about human beauty?
(a) That beauty is only skin-deep.
(b) That only a minority of people are not beautiful.
(c) That proportionality does indeed coincide with beauty.
(d) That both beautiful and ugly people might be considered proportionate.

2. Why, according to Burke, is the idea of God sublime?
(a) Because the idea itself is not describable in words.
(b) Because the notion of so much power overwhelms the understanding.
(c) Because the intellectual response is weighty and considerable.
(d) Because the love generated in one's soul is all-consuming.

3. What does Burke want "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" to accomplish?
(a) The Enquiry will teach people about nature.
(b) The Enquiry will be useful in schools.
(c) The Enquiry will open minds.
(d) The Enquiry will disprove older theories.

4. What general quality does Burke assert about "taste?"
(a) It is the province of the refined upper-class.
(b) It is unnecessary for discussion about beauty.
(c) It is the sole means of valuing an individual.
(d) It is natural and common to all people.

5. Burke asserts that vastness of dimension is as sublime as:
(a) Minuteness of size.
(b) Lightly textured surfaces.
(c) Vivid, intense color.
(d) Regular, even sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What large part of text has Burke added between the First and Second editions?

2. What example does Burke give for a sublime sound?

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

4. What, according to Burke, is the cause of wrong "taste" in a person?

5. What, according to Burke, is most striking to this creative power of mind?

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