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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Infraction.
(b) Trespass.
(c) Encroachment.
(d) Breach.

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1843.

3. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1627.
(d) 1611.

4. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Late 18th century.
(b) Early 19th century.
(c) Mid-19th century.
(d) Early 18th century.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

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

4. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

5. When did Stendhal write Armance?

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