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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the connection of Democritus and Democritus Junior?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are the same person.
(c) Their thoughts on melancholy.
(d) They are father and son.

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

3. What kind of food does Burton believe induces melancholy?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Sugar and Salt.
(c) Meat and dairy.
(d) Potatoes.

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

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

6. What is Burton doing with the work of Democritus?
(a) Further developing it.
(b) Glorifying it.
(c) Undermininging it.
(d) Disproving it.

7. Where are lycanthrops during the day?
(a) At work.
(b) Hiding.
(c) Together.
(d) In trees.

8. How does Burton categorize types of melancholy?
(a) By the symptoms.
(b) By the duration.
(c) By the cause.
(d) By people's reactions.

9. Where is the melancholic humor produced?
(a) The spleen.
(b) The kidney.
(c) The lung.
(d) The stomach.

10. Burton sees people with fiery temperaments as very ______.
(a) Disturbed.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Happy.

11. What does Burton believe the effect of idleness is?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Love.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Melancholy.

12. What does Burton credit as the cause of inexplicable melancholy?
(a) Genetics.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

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

14. 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.

15. The most minor form of melancholy is a tendency towards _______ and sadness.
(a) Anger.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Seriousness.
(d) Sickness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is chylus derived from?

3. Burton believe people who arrive with technology are seen as ____.

4. When are Democritus's thoughts prevalent?

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

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