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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be cheerful.
(b) Be content.
(c) Be optimistic.
(d) Be carefree.

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

3. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1860.

4. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Uninhibited sex.
(b) Philanthrophy.
(c) Love affair.
(d) Marriage.

5. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?

2. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?

3. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?

4. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

5. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?

(see the answer key)

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