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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Burke include a section on the effect of words in "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"?
(a) He desires to refute all the claims of visual artists in order to place written art on a pedestal.
(b) He indicates that not enough literary criticism is worthwhile, and wishes to demonstrate quality writing.
(c) He includes this section as a way to generate interest in his own poetical publications.
(d) He believes that words affect us differently than images or objects, and wants to discuss them.

2. How does Burke define the beautiful in feeling?
(a) That which is pleasant to the touch.
(b) That which can be simultaneously seen and smelled.
(c) That which is roughly textured.
(d) That which highly arouses the emotions.

3. To what does a "strong" expression relate?
(a) To one's passions and one's feelings.
(b) To one's intellect and to one's education.
(c) To one's soul and one's beliefs.
(d) To one's experience and one's fears.

4. In Burke's opinion, at what depiction do painters most notably fail?
(a) The depiction of hell.
(b) The depiction of lovers.
(c) The depiction of nobility.
(d) The depiction of the sea.

5. Burke writes that "Beauty in distress is the most _________ kind of beauty."
(a) Affecting.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Pleasurable.
(d) Disgusting.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Burke, what is the mechanical reason darkness is terrible?

2. What is Burke's argument about the relation of danger to the sublime?

3. What is the effect of opiates or liquors, according to Burke?

4. What colors appropriately represent the sublime?

5. How is blackness different from darkness, according to Burke?

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