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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Causes of Melancholy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burton see as the current status of angels and demons?

2. What is chylus derived from?

3. Burton sees destruction by natural disasters as _______.

4. Burton regards all magnitudes of melancholy as _______.

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

(see the answer key)

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