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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. When did Keats die?
(a) December 1820.
(b) February 1821.
(c) January 1821.
(d) November 1820.

3. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
(a) Libidinous behavior.
(b) Being erotic.
(c) Liberated sexual life.
(d) Indulging in the carnal.

4. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) Almost everyone.
(b) 95 percent of the population.
(c) 50 percent of the population.
(d) Everyone.

5. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1781.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?

2. When was streptomycin discovered?

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

4. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

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

(see the answer key)

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