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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Venice.

2. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?
(a) 5-fluorouracil.
(b) Doxorubicin.
(c) Idiomycin.
(d) Cyclophosphamide.

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

4. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
(a) John Middleton Murry.
(b) D. H. Lawrence.
(c) Frieda Lawrence.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

5. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Stubborn and incurable.
(b) Unmanageable and deadly.
(c) Intractable and capricious.
(d) Hopeless and fatal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

2. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

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

4. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

5. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

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