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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Fervour.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Gusto.
(d) Ardor.

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

3. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) Last 200 years.
(c) 1800s.
(d) 1700s.

4. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1790-1791.
(b) 1780-1781.
(c) 1800-1801.
(d) 1799-1800.

5. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

2. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

3. Where did Keats die?

4. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

5. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

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