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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Love affair.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Uninhibited sex.
(d) Philanthrophy.

3. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1901.

4. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1860.

5. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Affection.
(b) Love.
(c) Adulation.
(d) Devotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

2. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

3. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

4. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?

5. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

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