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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Fervor.
(c) Passion.
(d) Vitality.

2. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/8.
(c) 2/3 or 3/5.
(d) 1/4 or 1/2.

3. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Naples.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

4. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Corsica.

5. When did Keats die?
(a) February 1821.
(b) December 1820.
(c) January 1821.
(d) November 1820.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?

2. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

3. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?

4. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?

5. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

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