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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 Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) TB.

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of repression.
(b) Disease of inhibition.
(c) Disease of suprression.
(d) Disease of restraint.

3. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Water.
(c) Manure.
(d) Divine wrath.

4. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1939.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

2. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

3. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?

4. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

5. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?

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