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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Billy the Kid.
(b) Jesse James.
(c) Doc Holliday.
(d) Pancho Villa.

2. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Venice.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

3. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Diomedes.
(d) Odysseus.

4. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Plague.
(b) Typhus.
(c) TB.
(d) Scarlet fever.

5. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Croak.
(b) Crab.
(c) Gripee.
(d) Crustacean.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

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

3. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

4. When did Alice James die from cancer?

5. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

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