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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 3rd stage.
(b) Last stage.
(c) 4th stage.
(d) Middle stage.

2. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?
(a) Odor of manure.
(b) Odor of the graveyard.
(c) Odor of carrion.
(d) Odor of rotting flesh.

3. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Fanaticism.
(d) Utopianism.

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

5. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1781.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

2. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

3. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

4. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?

(see the answer key)

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