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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 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Dissolute.
(b) Depraved and lascivious.
(c) Reckless and sensual.
(d) Hedonic and intermperate.

2. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?
(a) Mediterranean.
(b) South Pacific.
(c) Italy.
(d) Desert.

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

4. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) May 1924.
(b) March 1924.
(c) April 1924.
(d) June 1924.

5. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag call illness?

2. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

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

4. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

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

(see the answer key)

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