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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1867.

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

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

4. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Plague.

5. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Plague.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) TB.
(d) Typhus.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

2. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

3. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

4. When did Keats die?

5. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?

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