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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Burton believes some see angels and demons as ____.
(a) High society.
(b) Evil.
(c) Holy.
(d) Imaginary.

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

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

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

5. Who is the target for Burton's book?
(a) Histrical figures.
(b) Modern people.
(c) Democritus.
(d) His peers.

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

7. The most serious forms of melancholy can be _______.
(a) Deadly.
(b) Entertaining.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Frightening.

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

9. Burton thinks a dietary problem is _____.
(a) A social cause for melancholy.
(b) A pre-exising cause for melancholy.
(c) An internal cause for melancholy.
(d) A mental cause for melancholy.

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

11. How does Burton regard those who claim they have melancholy?
(a) They're pretending.
(b) They should be shunned.
(c) There is something else wrong.
(d) They aren't faking.

12. Some believe the eccentric behavior of lycanthropy is a means of ______.
(a) Criticism.
(b) Communicating.
(c) Joking.
(d) Coping.

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

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

15. According to Burton, thoughts on demons are built on ____.
(a) Speculation.
(b) Fact.
(c) History.
(d) Folk tales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbolism does Burton use to describe fiery temperaments?

2. What is the life span of humanoid demons?

3. Burton regards all magnitudes of melancholy as _______.

4. What kind of people does Burton cite as causing melancholy in Chapter 8?

5. Where is the melancholic humor produced?

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