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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Mania.
(b) Hysterics.
(c) Hyperactivity.
(d) Frenzy.

2. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Separation.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Lack of love.
(d) Disconnection.

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

4. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1924.

5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Involved.
(b) Set apart.
(c) Isolated.
(d) Connected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?

2. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

3. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

4. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?

5. According to Herbert Snow, out of 140 cases of breast cancer, how many gave an account of previous mental trouble, hard work, or other problems?

(see the answer key)

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