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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) 1872.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1884.

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

3. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 23, 1820.
(b) November 1, 1820.
(c) November 30, 1820.
(d) November 19, 1820.

4. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) TB.
(b) Typus.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Smallpox.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

2. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

3. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

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

5. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?

(see the answer key)

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