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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 14th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 15th century.

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

3. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of inhibition.
(b) Disease of suprression.
(c) Disease of restraint.
(d) Disease of repression.

4. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Nestor.
(b) Diomedes.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

2. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

3. When was streptomycin discovered?

4. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

5. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

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