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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The First Partition : Chapter 4, More on Melancholy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Burton explains the causes of human ailments are _______.
(a) Predictable.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Unavoidable.
(d) Innumerable.

2. What is Burton's second step to correcting melancholy?
(a) Getting more sleep.
(b) Renovating one's life.
(c) Finding out the cause.
(d) Suing someone.

3. Which answer is not Burton's objective for writing "The Anatomy of Melancholy"?
(a) To gain fame.
(b) To disprove phychologists.
(c) To entertain.
(d) To change thought.

4. Someone with lycanthropy has ______ eyes.
(a) Black.
(b) Bright.
(c) Red.
(d) Hollow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If one experiences headaches, Burton believes his melancholy condition might be ______ related.

2. What culture describes people gaining power and control through spirit possession?

3. Burton claims that, for some, melancholy is normal and becomes a _____.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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