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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1862.

2. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) April 1828.
(b) January 1828.
(c) February 1828.
(d) March 1828.

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

4. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
(a) Self.
(b) It.
(c) Essence.
(d) Character.

5. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Liver.
(b) Stomach.
(c) Colon.
(d) Lung.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

2. What type of mark was it to be sad?

3. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

4. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

5. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

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