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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) 1780s.
(c) Mid-18th century.
(d) 1850s.

2. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Utopianism.
(c) Fanaticism.
(d) Romanticism.

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Venice.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Rome.

4. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?
(a) Odor of the graveyard.
(b) Odor of carrion.
(c) Odor of manure.
(d) Odor of rotting flesh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?

2. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

3. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?

4. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

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

(see the answer key)

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