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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1671.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1683.
(d) 1679.

2. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Fanaticism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Utopianism.

3. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1773.

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

5. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1617.
(d) 1528.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

2. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

3. What does Sontag call illness?

4. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?

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

(see the answer key)

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