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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1679.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1683.

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

4. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He withdrew from life.
(b) He gave up.
(c) He remained unhappily married.
(d) He yielded to resignation.

5. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Vicious and unrelenting.
(b) Ruthless and secret.
(c) Savage and ferocious.
(d) Fierce and unyielding.

Short Answer Questions

1. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

2. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

3. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

4. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

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

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