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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1862.

2. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Affection.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Adulation.
(d) Love.

3. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) 1700s.
(c) 1800s.
(d) Last 200 years.

4. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1671.
(b) 1683.
(c) 1679.
(d) 1689.

Short Answer Questions

1. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

2. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

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

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

5. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?

(see the answer key)

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