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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
(a) Self.
(b) Essence.
(c) Character.
(d) It.

3. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Human, All Too Human.
(b) Untimely Mediations.
(c) The Will to Power.
(d) Beyond Good and Evil.

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

5. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) How illness as been used as a metaphor.
(b) The topography of illness.
(c) The geography of illness.
(d) Why illness is a metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

4. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?

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