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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Crime.
(b) Larceny.
(c) Theft.
(d) Thievery.

2. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?
(a) Martin.
(b) Willy.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Tony.

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

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

5. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?
(a) Late 18th century.
(b) 1790s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) Early 19th century.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

3. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

4. How many organs can TB affect?

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

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