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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) TB.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Smallpox.

4. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
(a) William Blake.
(b) John Keats.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

5. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Typus.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) TB.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

2. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

3. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?

4. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

5. When did Alice James die from cancer?

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