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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) 1800s.
(c) Last 200 years.
(d) 1700s.

3. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) May 1924.
(b) April 1924.
(c) March 1924.
(d) June 1924.

4. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Early 19th century.
(c) Late 18th century.
(d) Early 18th century.

5. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Infraction.
(b) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Encroachment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main symptom of TB?

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

3. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

4. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

5. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

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