View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) Middle stage.
(b) Last stage.
(c) 3rd stage.
(d) 4th stage.

2. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Horror.
(b) Panic.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Dread.

3. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) June 1924.
(b) March 1924.
(c) May 1924.
(d) April 1924.

4. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Fervour.
(c) Gusto.
(d) Emotion.

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Florence.
(b) Naples.
(c) Venice.
(d) Palermo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main symptom of TB?

2. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

3. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

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

5. When did Stendhal write Armance?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 141 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample