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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) Last stage.
(b) 3rd stage.
(c) Middle stage.
(d) 4th stage.

2. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 105 pounds.
(b) 110 pounds.
(c) 115 pounds.
(d) 99 pounds.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

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

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

5. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

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