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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Palermo.
(b) Naples.
(c) Venice.
(d) Florence.

2. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) A knock on the door.
(b) Night-side of life.
(c) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(d) Death tiptoeing.

3. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
(a) It.
(b) Self.
(c) Essence.
(d) Character.

4. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1853.

5. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?
(a) Mid-18th century.
(b) 1850s.
(c) Mid-19th century.
(d) 1780s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

2. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

3. When did Alice James die from cancer?

4. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?

5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?

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