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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 1.

3. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?
(a) Leos Janacek.
(b) Max Brod.
(c) Karl Kraus.
(d) Felice Bauer.

4. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1883.

5. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Plague.
(c) TB.
(d) Typhus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?

2. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

3. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?

4. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

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