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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Lack of love.
(c) Separation.
(d) Disconnection.

2. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Theft.
(b) Larceny.
(c) Crime.
(d) Thievery.

3. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) September 1917.
(b) July 1917.
(c) August 1917.
(d) October 1917.

4. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) June 1924.
(b) April 1924.
(c) March 1924.
(d) May 1924.

5. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1781.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Lost Illusions?

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

4. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?

5. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

(see the answer key)

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