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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?
(a) Around 110.
(b) More than 100.
(c) 120.
(d) 75.

2. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Zest.
(b) Vigor.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Passion.

3. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1917.

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

5. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1737.
(c) 1768.
(d) 1741.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?

2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?

3. When did Keats die?

4. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

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