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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Zest.
(c) Vigor.
(d) Passion.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

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

3. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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