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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Hysterics.
(b) Mania.
(c) Hyperactivity.
(d) Frenzy.

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

3. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Diomedes.
(d) Odysseus.

4. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Cholera.
(c) TB.
(d) Smallpox.

5. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Argos.
(b) Baris.
(c) Megara.
(d) Thebes.

Short Answer Questions

1. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

2. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?

3. When did Keats die?

4. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?

5. Where did Keats die?

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