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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 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?
(a) Logotype.
(b) Figure.
(c) Emblem.
(d) Symbol.

2. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Plague.

3. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?
(a) Italy.
(b) South Pacific.
(c) Mediterranean.
(d) Desert.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?

2. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?

3. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?

4. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

5. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?

(see the answer key)

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