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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Burton, what is one who loves worthy of?

2. What was Alcibiades' biggest flaw?

3. Burton thinks comedy is ______.

4. The wanton man's love life is not one of love but of _______.

5. Burton cites Plato, who discusses the _______ of love.

Short Essay Questions

1. In Burton's opinion, how far will people go for love?

2. Why does Burton see love and hate as being similar?

3. Why does Burton advise rituals as a means for curing melancholy?

4. Are Burton's ways of curing melancholy fairly black and white? What are his cures dependent on?

5. Why does Burton believe idleness causes melancholy via love?

6. To Burton, is love curable?

7. How does Burton feel about the physical variations in humans? How does he approach these variations?

8. According to Burton, do all symptoms of love appear positive? Can love be mistaken for something else?

9. What are the three basic types of love Burton expresses?

10. According to Burton, do challenges help cure melancholy? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Burton suggests cures for melancholy. Discuss how Burton's cures connect science, religion, and logic and the feasibility and origin of such cures.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how love incorporates and leads to melancholy, based on the information given in "The Anatomy of Melancholy."

Essay Topic 3

Burton explains that his predecessors in medicine and philosophy laid the foundations for his findings. Discuss how Burton develops others' work. Whose work is "The Anatomy of Melancholy"?

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