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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
(a) Libidinous behavior.
(b) Indulging in the carnal.
(c) Liberated sexual life.
(d) Being erotic.

2. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 27, 1820.
(b) July 3, 1820.
(c) July 19, 1820.
(d) July 11, 1820.

3. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1876.

4. When did Hitler, in his first political tract, accuse the Jews of producing "a racial tuberculosis among nations" (83)?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

5. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Passion.
(b) Fervor.
(c) Vitality.
(d) Ardor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?

2. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

3. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?

4. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?

5. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?

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