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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Dread.
(b) Horror.
(c) Panic.
(d) Anxiety.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Passion.
(b) Vigor.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Zest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main symptom of TB?

2. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

3. How many organs can TB affect?

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

5. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?

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