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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 Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1827.

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

3. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Human, All Too Human.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) The Will to Power.
(d) Untimely Mediations.

4. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Inward flame.
(b) Being ablaze.
(c) Being enflamed.
(d) Inward burning.

5. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Fervour.
(b) Gusto.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

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

4. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

5. What is the main symptom of TB?

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