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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Lost Illusions?
(a) Balzac.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Flaubert.

2. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?
(a) Scofula.
(b) White plague.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Wasting disease.

3. When did Lord Shaftesbury write that stern repressive measures were likely to increase disorder rather than stop it?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1694.
(c) 1699.
(d) 1711.

4. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1924.

5. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
(a) Being erotic.
(b) Liberated sexual life.
(c) Indulging in the carnal.
(d) Libidinous behavior.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?

3. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

4. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?

(see the answer key)

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