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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Wheezing.
(b) Coughing.
(c) Congestion.
(d) Breathlessness.

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

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

4. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) A knock on the door.
(b) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(c) Death tiptoeing.
(d) Night-side of life.

5. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

2. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

3. When did Alice James die from cancer?

4. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?

5. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

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