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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Typhus.
(d) TB.

2. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Infraction.
(b) Encroachment.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Breach.

3. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Abstaining from sin.
(b) Strong mental attitude.
(c) Asserting the will.
(d) Confessing sin.

4. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffective.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Inefficacious.

5. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Plague.
(d) Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

2. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?

3. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?

4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?

5. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?

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