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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Typus.
(b) TB.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Scarlet fever.

2. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 25.
(b) 2.
(c) 11.
(d) 1.

3. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He remained unhappily married.
(c) He withdrew from life.
(d) He gave up.

4. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1840s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1819.

5. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) How illness as been used as a metaphor.
(b) The geography of illness.
(c) The topography of illness.
(d) Why illness is a metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?

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

4. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

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

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