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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Refinement.
(b) Culture.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Breeding.

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

4. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Beyond Good and Evil.
(b) Human, All Too Human.
(c) The Will to Power.
(d) Untimely Mediations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

2. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

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

4. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?

5. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

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