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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1773.

2. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Untimely Mediations.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) The Will to Power.
(d) Human, All Too Human.

3. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Romania.
(d) Bulgaria.

4. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Panic.
(c) Dread.
(d) Horror.

5. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1879.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag call illness?

2. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?

3. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

5. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

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