Imagine That You Could Use a Time Machine to Travel

question 23

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you could use a time machine to travel back to the thirteenth century. You see groups of people in a village jumping, dancing, and having convulsions in the town square. All over Europe, you find similar groups of raving people. You would have witnessed the ____.

• A) phenomenon called trephining
• B) mass madness called St. Vitus's Dance
• C) phenomenon called lycanthropy
• D) mass madness called mesmerism

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