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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do false gods fall on Burton's spirit ranking list?
(a) The top.
(b) The bottom.
(c) They're not listed.
(d) The middle.

3. What kind of water does Burton believe is better to drink?
(a) Running.
(b) Still.
(c) Salt.
(d) Sparkling.

4. Who are humanoid demons superior to?
(a) Regular demons.
(b) Priests.
(c) Children.
(d) Humans.

5. Aside from the common person, Burton's audience includes _____.
(a) People with melancholy.
(b) Future generations.
(c) Children.
(d) Physicians.

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 8, Burton discusses how _____ affect melancholia.
(a) Money.
(b) Stars.
(c) Weather.
(d) Silence.

11. Burton regards all magnitudes of melancholy as _______.
(a) Supernatural.
(b) Uncommon.
(c) Debilitating.
(d) Overrated.

12. In divine justice, why do bad things happen to people?
(a) As karma.
(b) To build character.
(c) As a test.
(d) As punishment.

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

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

15. What is the nature of the phlegmatic humor?
(a) It's warm.
(b) It's pink.
(c) It's dry.
(d) It's cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Burton's third step to correcting melancholy?

2. Where do people with lycanthropy spend their time?

3. If one experiences headaches, Burton believes his melancholy condition might be ______ related.

4. Burton agrees with divine justice in that ____ causes suffering.

5. What is Burton's opinion of why disease is less common today?

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