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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be carefree.
(b) Be optimistic.
(c) Be cheerful.
(d) Be content.

2. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1904.

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

4. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Zest.
(b) Vigor.
(c) Passion.
(d) Ardor.

5. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 23, 1820.
(b) November 19, 1820.
(c) November 1, 1820.
(d) November 30, 1820.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

2. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?

3. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

4. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

(see the answer key)

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