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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 2/3 or 3/5.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/4 or 1/2.
(d) 1/8.

2. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Frenzy.
(b) Hyperactivity.
(c) Hysterics.
(d) Mania.

3. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Adulation.
(b) Love.
(c) Affection.
(d) Devotion.

4. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Argos.
(b) Megara.
(c) Baris.
(d) Thebes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

3. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

4. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?

5. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?

(see the answer key)

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