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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Culture.
(b) Refinement.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Breeding.

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of repression.
(b) Disease of inhibition.
(c) Disease of restraint.
(d) Disease of suprression.

3. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?
(a) Early 19th century.
(b) Late 18th century.
(c) 1790s.
(d) 1880s.

4. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1939.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

3. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

4. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

5. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

(see the answer key)

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