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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 Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 3, 1820.
(b) July 27, 1820.
(c) July 11, 1820.
(d) July 19, 1820.

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

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

4. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) 95 percent of the population.
(b) Everyone.
(c) 50 percent of the population.
(d) Almost everyone.

5. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He remained unhappily married.
(c) He gave up.
(d) He withdrew from life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main symptom of TB?

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

4. When did Alice James die from cancer?

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

(see the answer key)

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