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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Encroachment.

3. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Utopianism.
(c) Fanaticism.
(d) Romanticism.

4. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) November 1917.
(b) August 1917.
(c) September 1917.
(d) October 1917.

5. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Refinement.
(b) Breeding.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?

2. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

3. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

4. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

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

(see the answer key)

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