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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 27, 1820.
(b) July 3, 1820.
(c) July 19, 1820.
(d) July 11, 1820.

2. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?
(a) Gravid.
(b) Gestation.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Pregnancy.

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

4. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?
(a) Doctor Crawford.
(b) Doctor Vincent.
(c) Doctor Williams.
(d) Doctor Thomas.

5. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Combative.
(c) Invasive.
(d) Incursive.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

2. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?

3. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?

4. What type of mark was it to be sad?

5. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?

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