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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aside from the common person, Burton's audience includes _____.
(a) Children.
(b) People with melancholy.
(c) Physicians.
(d) Future generations.

2. What is chylus derived from?
(a) Studying.
(b) Eating vegetables.
(c) Eating meat.
(d) Melancholy.

3. Burton believe people who arrive with technology are seen as ____.
(a) Con artists.
(b) Gods.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Demons.

4. Burton explains there are natural and _______ causes for melancholy.
(a) Supernatural.
(b) Imagined.
(c) Comical.
(d) Serious.

5. What makes melancholy of special interest to Democritus?
(a) It is an undiscussed subject.
(b) He wants to help people.
(c) He loves the sound of the word.
(d) He has a melancholic temperament himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Burton's first step to correcting melancholy?

2. What is Burton's opinion of why disease is less common today?

3. Many writers call melancholy a form of ______.

4. According to Burton, thoughts on demons are built on ____.

5. What does Burton believe is a subtle substance produced by the body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burton speculate is the origin of an unknown cause of melancholy?

2. In Chapter 3, do people have absolute control over what happens to them?

3. Why does Burton want to further the ideas of Democritus?

4. Why would someone act as though they had lycanthropy?

5. To Burton, what constitutes and "inner cause" of melancholy?

6. In Burton's opinion, where does the melancholic humor come from? What is its character?

7. According to Burton, is he the author of this work on melancholy? Why or why not?

8. Based on Burton's observations, are there fewer disease epidemics because people are sinning less? Explain.

9. What is the nature of a humanoid spirit, according to Burton?

10. What specifically about "melancholy" does Burton wish to discuss?

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