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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. How does Burton regard those who claim they have melancholy?
(a) There is something else wrong.
(b) They're pretending.
(c) They aren't faking.
(d) They should be shunned.

2. In divine justice, whose wrongdoings do people suffer from?
(a) Criminals.
(b) Their own.
(c) God's.
(d) Their family's.

3. From Burton's view, _____, madness, and melancholy are distinct.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Frenzy.
(c) Disease.
(d) Love.

4. Burton claims that, for some, melancholy is normal and becomes a _____.
(a) Comfort.
(b) Curse.
(c) Blessing.
(d) Habit.

5. Many writers call melancholy a form of ______.
(a) Coping.
(b) Love.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Madness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nature of the phlegmatic humor?

2. In Burton's opinion, what is the negative side of large-scale diseases and disasters?

3. "The Anatomy of Melancholy" addresses two conditions: unhappiness and ________.

4. What is the nature of the choler humor?

5. Burton explains there are natural and _______ causes for melancholy.

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