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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Affection.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Love.
(d) Adulation.

2. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1827.

3. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Unmanageable and deadly.
(b) Intractable and capricious.
(c) Hopeless and fatal.
(d) Stubborn and incurable.

4. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) Re-imagine it.
(b) De-mythicize it.
(c) Change the vision.
(d) De-stigmatize it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

2. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

3. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

4. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

5. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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