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Phobias Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Fear?
A phobia is an exaggerated, persistent, and overpowering fear of ... well, just about anything. From knees to vegetables to otters, the subjects of these intense fears are irrational by definition. Their names, however, are quite rational; most are derived from Greek or Latin. So dust off that classics dictionary and find out just how much you know about fear.
1
A person who suffers from dendrophobia has a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of what?
2
Aviophobia is also known as which of the following?
3
Brontophobia, one of the more common phobias, describes an obsessive fear of what?
4
A xenophobe possesses an overpowering fear of what?
5
An arachibutyrophobic is obsessively terrified of what?
6
Which of the following describes a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of snakes?
7
One of the most common phobias is agoraphobia, an irrational fear of what?
8
People with triskaidekaphobia are terrified of anything to do with which of the following?
9
A person who is terrified of crossing a bridge is afflicted with which of the following?
10
Sesquipedalophobics are horrified of which of the following?
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