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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The First Partition : Chapter 5, Digression of Anatomy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do people with lycanthropy spend their time?
(a) In bed.
(b) In hospitals.
(c) In graveyards.
(d) In caves.

2. Burton thinks a dietary problem is _____.
(a) A mental cause for melancholy.
(b) A pre-exising cause for melancholy.
(c) An internal cause for melancholy.
(d) A social cause for melancholy.

3. What does Burton believe are the first formed parts of the body?
(a) The heart.
(b) The soul.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The spermatical.

4. When are Democritus's thoughts prevalent?
(a) Never.
(b) Today.
(c) The medieval period.
(d) Ancient times.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From Burton's view, _____, madness, and melancholy are distinct.

2. Where is the melancholic humor produced?

3. How does Burton categorize types of melancholy?

4. Burton describes "______" victims as people who suffer by no wrongdoing of their own.

5. Burton is careful not to ______ too much knowledge on the reader.

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