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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 23, 1820.
(b) November 30, 1820.
(c) November 19, 1820.
(d) November 1, 1820.

2. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1876.

3. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1917.

4. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Rome.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Naples.

5. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He remained unhappily married.
(b) He gave up.
(c) He withdrew from life.
(d) He yielded to resignation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

2. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

3. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

4. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

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