View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Typhus.
(c) TB.
(d) Cholera.

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

3. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Adulation.
(c) Affection.
(d) Love.

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

5. When did English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1842.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?

2. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?

3. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

4. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

5. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 151 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample