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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.
(b) University of California.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Yale University.

2. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Nestor.
(d) Agamemnon.

3. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1827.

4. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Cholera.
(c) TB.
(d) Leprosy.

5. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1531.
(c) 1513.
(d) 1529.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?

2. What is the main symptom of TB?

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

4. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

5. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

(see the answer key)

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