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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1398.
(b) 1403.
(c) 1386.
(d) 1411.

2. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He repressed his sexual nature.
(b) He embraced his sexual nature.
(c) He withdrew from love.
(d) He embraced love.

3. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?
(a) Willy.
(b) Martin.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Tony.

4. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1876.

5. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Early 18th century.
(c) Early 19th century.
(d) Late 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

2. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?

3. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?

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

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

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