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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. Divine justice suggests people have ______ control over what happens to them.
(a) Minimal.
(b) A lot.
(c) No.
(d) Absolute.

2. What is Burton's opinion of why disease is less common today?
(a) Better food.
(b) Less trees.
(c) Less children.
(d) Medicine and hygiene.

3. A sufferer of lycanthropy believes he is _____.
(a) A wolf.
(b) A king.
(c) A bird.
(d) A god.

4. According to Burton, divine justice is a(n) ______ philosophy today.
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Contentious.
(d) Hyped.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes melancholy of special interest to Democritus?

2. How does Burton regard those who claim they have melancholy?

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

4. The most serious forms of melancholy can be _______.

5. Burton thinks a dietary problem is _____.

(see the answer key)

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