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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Separation.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Lack of love.
(d) Disconnection.

2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Ares.
(c) Athena.
(d) Apollo.

3. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Hedonic and intermperate.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Dissolute.
(d) Depraved and lascivious.

4. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?
(a) Depression.
(b) Dispirited.
(c) Moroseness.
(d) Despondency.depress

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

2. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

3. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

4. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?

5. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?

(see the answer key)

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