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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?
(a) Water.
(b) Divine wrath.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Manure.

2. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Does not knock before it enters.
(b) Exposes weakness.
(c) Tears down defenses.
(d) Barges in the door.

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

4. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Ares.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Athena.

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1883.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

2. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

4. When was streptomycin discovered?

5. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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