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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Causes of Melancholy - the Demonaic causes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Burton, who won't entertain conversations about angles or demons?
(a) Children.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Priests.
(d) Soldiers.

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

3. Burton describes "______" victims as people who suffer by no wrongdoing of their own.
(a) Sympathetic.
(b) Fake.
(c) Pathetic.
(d) Real.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One school of thought on demons believes they are diverse and shouldn't be ____.

2. What is Burton's second step to correcting melancholy?

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

4. What does Burton see as the current status of angels and demons?

5. Burton explains the causes of human ailments are _______.

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