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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Congestion.
(b) Breathlessness.
(c) Coughing.
(d) Wheezing.

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

3. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1617.
(c) 1528.
(d) 1548.

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

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) 1800s.
(c) Last 200 years.
(d) 1700s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

2. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

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

4. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

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

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