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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?
(a) Antwerp.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Naples.
(d) Rotterdam.

2. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?
(a) The Pickwick Papers.
(b) Barnaby Rudge.
(c) The Cricket on the Hearth.
(d) Dombey and Son.

3. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Human, All Too Human.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) Untimely Mediations.
(d) The Will to Power.

4. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
(a) John Middleton Murry.
(b) D. H. Lawrence.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Frieda Lawrence.

5. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

2. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?

3. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?

4. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?

5. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?

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