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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. What is Burton's third step to correcting melancholy?
(a) Starting a new relationship.
(b) Calling one's family.
(c) Going on vacation.
(d) Taking steps to heal.

2. According to Christianity, good brings forth _____.
(a) Warnings.
(b) God.
(c) Good.
(d) Blessings.

3. Burton identifies wild ______ as the most chronic cause of human ailments.
(a) Weather.
(b) Disease.
(c) Children.
(d) Behavior.

4. Burton offers a recipe cure of fasting and boiled _____.
(a) Eggs.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Water.
(d) Ram.

5. Burton discusses Alcibiades, a _______ of Plato.
(a) Uncle.
(b) Friend.
(c) Student.
(d) Enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Democritus provids the _____ viewpoint of melancholy.

2. Burton describes "______" victims as people who suffer by no wrongdoing of their own.

3. What does Burton credit as the cause of inexplicable melancholy?

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

5. What would be a legal cure for melancholy?

(see the answer key)

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