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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 Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) April 1828.
(b) March 1828.
(c) January 1828.
(d) February 1828.

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

3. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Vitality.
(c) Passion.
(d) Fervor.

4. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) Silvercrest.
(b) Saranac Lake.
(c) Rockhaven.
(d) The Magic Mountain.

5. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Does not knock before it enters.
(b) Exposes weakness.
(c) Barges in the door.
(d) Tears down defenses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

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

3. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

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

5. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

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