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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
(a) Insolvency.
(b) Penury.
(c) Bankruptcy.
(d) Impoverishment.

3. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1516.
(d) 1495.

4. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?
(a) Incursive.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Invasive.
(d) Combative.

5. When did an officer with the Christian Lebanese rightist forces call the Palestine refugee camp of Tal Zaatar a cancer?
(a) October 1976.
(b) September 1976.
(c) August 1976.
(d) July 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

2. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

3. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

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

5. When was travel to a better climate invented as a treatment for TB?

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