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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1843.

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

4. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) January 1828.
(b) March 1828.
(c) April 1828.
(d) February 1828.

5. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Reckless and sensual.
(b) Depraved and lascivious.
(c) Dissolute.
(d) Hedonic and intermperate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

2. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

3. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

5. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

(see the answer key)

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