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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?
(a) Without inhibition.
(b) Without restraint.
(c) Without limitation.
(d) Without restriction.

2. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Set apart.
(b) Involved.
(c) Isolated.
(d) Connected.

3. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?
(a) Felice Bauer.
(b) Leos Janacek.
(c) Max Brod.
(d) Karl Kraus.

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

5. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Athena.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Ares.
(d) Artemis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?

4. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

5. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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