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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Keats die?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Rome.

2. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Infectious.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Contagious.
(d) Endemic.

3. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) March 6, 1821.
(b) April 9, 1821.
(c) January 19, 1821.
(d) February 24, 1821.

4. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?
(a) Barnaby Rudge.
(b) Dombey and Son.
(c) The Pickwick Papers.
(d) The Cricket on the Hearth.

5. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1386.
(b) 1398.
(c) 1411.
(d) 1403.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

2. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?

3. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

4. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?

5. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

(see the answer key)

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