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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The Third Partition : Chapter 13, Aritficial Allurements.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burton begin discussing his methodology for dealing with melancholy in Chapter 2?
(a) Through a chart.
(b) Through riddles.
(c) Through metaphor.
(d) Through historical references.

2. What organ does chylus emerge from?
(a) The kidney.
(b) The heart.
(c) The lung.
(d) The liver.

3. What is Burton's first step to correcting melancholy?
(a) Taking medication.
(b) Recognizing its existence.
(c) Finding new friends.
(d) Hours of meditation.

4. Burton is careful not to ______ too much knowledge on the reader.
(a) Impose.
(b) Invent.
(c) Presuppose.
(d) Contradict.

5. Burton believes that distance from _______ causes change in skin color.
(a) The equator.
(b) Youth.
(c) The Middle Ages.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what inevitability does Burton observe as a cause for melancholy?

2. What is the connection of Democritus and Democritus Junior?

3. Burton explains there are ____ basic ways people love each other.

4. Burton explains that most see the nature of demons as being _____.

5. What kinds of ideas does Burton believe deities personify?

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