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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) Romania.

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

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

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

5. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

3. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?

4. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

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

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