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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. What is Burton doing with the work of Democritus?
(a) Undermininging it.
(b) Further developing it.
(c) Glorifying it.
(d) Disproving it.

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

3. Burton explains that urine, sweat, and ______ are also important for the body.
(a) Tears.
(b) Skin.
(c) Muscles.
(d) Germs.

4. "The Anatomy of Melancholy" addresses two conditions: unhappiness and ________.
(a) Sadness.
(b) Passiveness.
(c) Clinical depression.
(d) Anger.

5. Where is the melancholic humor produced?
(a) The kidney.
(b) The lung.
(c) The stomach.
(d) The spleen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In divine justice, whose wrongdoings do people suffer from?

2. How does chylus aid the body?

3. What is the nature of the phlegmatic humor?

4. Aside from magnitude, Burton discusses _____.

5. What is the appearance of the melancholic humor?

(see the answer key)

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