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

2. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?
(a) Zopyrus.
(b) Galen.
(c) Antipater.
(d) Damocrates.

3. From what discipline are the descriptions of cancer drawn?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Economics.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Sociology.

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

5. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?

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

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

4. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

5. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

(see the answer key)

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