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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Rome.
(b) Naples.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Corsica.

3. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1952.

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?
(a) Ravages of resentment.
(b) Ravages of vexation.
(c) Ravages of bitterness.
(d) Ravages of frustration.

5. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1403.
(b) 1411.
(c) 1386.
(d) 1398.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?

2. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?

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

4. When was Trotsky banished from the Soviet Union?

5. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?

(see the answer key)

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