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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
(a) Bankruptcy.
(b) Impoverishment.
(c) Insolvency.
(d) Penury.

2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Athena.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Ares.

3. When did Mandelstam pay a tribute to Pasternak regarding his verse?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1922.

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

5. Who believed that murder was the only "natural" (78) way for a society to die?
(a) Hume.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Montesquie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Machiavelli believe that "proper statecraft . . . can prevent a fatal disorder"?

2. When was travel to a better climate invented as a treatment for TB?

3. When did Stendhal write Armance?

4. When did Gramsci write Socialism and Culture?

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

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