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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What causes hearing in humans, according to Burke?
2. What body part's workings does Burke describe in detail?
3. To what does Burke tie his own opinion of darkness and the sublime?
4. What does NOT make certain objects or experiences affect us the way they do?
5. How does Burke define "proportion?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Burke assert affects the mind besides natural causes, and how does this thing relate to natural causes?
2. How does Burke define proportion, and under which human faculty does it fall?
3. What primary example does Burke cite in his argument that words may be used without being connected to images, and what is the significance of this example?
4. What is unique about the historical figure of Campanella, as related by Burke?
5. What does Burke identify as the three effects of words?
6. According to Burke, why is the taste of sweetness pleasant, and how does he decide this?
7. How does Burke define deformity?
8. How does Burke define ugliness, and how does Burke relate ugliness to beauty?
9. What is beautiful in feeling, according to Burke?
10. Summarize the difference between Locke's idea of the nature of darkness and Burke's idea of the nature of darkness.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the role of the senses in producing the effect of the sublime. How does Burke describe the differences between light and dark, relative to the sublime? What types of colors are productive of the sublime, and which colors are not, according to Burke? What qualities of sound produce the sublime? How can certain smells and tastes be sublime? Use examples to reinforce your points, and explain how each example is relevant.
Essay Topic 2
How does Burke define proportion, and under which human faculty does it fall? Why, according to Burke, is proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetation and animals? What examples does Burke use to prove this point? In his discussion of proportionality among human figures, what censure does Burke lay upon advocates of proportion-as-beauty? What influence does the theme of nature vs. artifice have upon Burke's perceptions of proportion and beauty?
Essay Topic 3
Paraphrase Burke's definition of beauty and the distinction he makes between love and lust or desire. What relation does beauty have to the sublime? Through which faculties does one experience, understand, and interpret that which is beautiful? How are love and lust/desire different, and can they ever coexist?
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