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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Infectious.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Contagious.
(d) Endemic.

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Hopeless and fatal.
(b) Unmanageable and deadly.
(c) Intractable and capricious.
(d) Stubborn and incurable.

5. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1879.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?

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

4. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?

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

(see the answer key)

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