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Question 1: English homesickness is a ________ of nostalgia.
German languageLoanwordChinese languageCalque

Question 2: The 1767 Dictionnaire de Musique by ________ claims that Swiss mercenaries were threatened with severe punishment to prevent them from singing their Swiss songs.
Immanuel KantJohn LockeJean-Jacques RousseauGottfried Leibniz

Question 3: It was considered as a form of ________ and a predisposing condition among suicides.
MelancholiaAngerLoveDepression (mood)

Question 4: In ________ Robert Hamilton (1749-1830) described a case of a soldier suffering from nostalgia, who received sensitive and successful treatment:
1788178717861789

Question 5: The Romantic connection of nostalgia, the Kuhreihen and the ________ was a significant factor in the enthusiasm for Switzerland, the development of early tourism in Switzerland and Alpinism that took hold of the European cultural elite in the 19th century.
GraubündenMonte RosaSwiss AlpsBernese Alps

Question 6: Nostalgia was, however, still diagnosed among soldiers as late as the ________.
United StatesTennesseeBleeding KansasAmerican Civil War

Question 7: [1] The word is a learned formation of a Greek compounds, consisting of νόστος, nóstos, "returning home", a ________ word, and ἄλγος, álgos, "pain" or "ache".
Ancient GreeceHomerClassical antiquityTroy

Question 8: It was described as a medical condition, a form of melancholy, in the ________, and came to be an important topic in Romanticism.
Early modern periodHigh Middle AgesModern historyAncient history

Question 9: The term was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer (1669-1752) in his ________ dissertation.
BaselSt. GallenBernZürich
















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