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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 Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1888.

2. From what discipline are the descriptions of cancer drawn?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Economics.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Psychology.

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

4. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Fervor.
(b) Ardor.
(c) Vitality.
(d) Passion.

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

3. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

4. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?

5. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?

(see the answer key)

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