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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 Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1872.

2. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Cholera.
(c) TB.
(d) Typhus.

3. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1869.

4. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1862.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?

2. When did Keats die?

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

4. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

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

(see the answer key)

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