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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Gonorrhea.
(c) Herpes.
(d) Chlamydia.

2. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1627.

3. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?
(a) Overcrowding.
(b) Loss.
(c) Unfulfillment.
(d) Loneliness.

4. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) TB.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Typus.

5. When did Keats die?
(a) February 1821.
(b) November 1820.
(c) January 1821.
(d) December 1820.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?

2. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

3. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?

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

5. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

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