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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Colon.
(b) Liver.
(c) Lung.
(d) Stomach.

4. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Venice.
(b) Florence.
(c) Naples.
(d) Palermo.

5. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

2. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

3. According to Herbert Snow, out of 140 cases of breast cancer, how many gave an account of previous mental trouble, hard work, or other problems?

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

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

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