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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?
(a) Poe.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Lovecraft.
(d) Baudelaire.

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1852.

3. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1977.

4. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1952.

5. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Culture.
(b) Refinement.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Breeding.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?

2. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?

3. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

5. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?

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