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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Chlamydia.
(b) Herpes.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Gonorrhea.

2. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffectual.
(b) Incompetent.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) Inefficacious.

3. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 4th stage.
(b) 3rd stage.
(c) Last stage.
(d) Middle stage.

4. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Romania.

5. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?

2. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?

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

4. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

5. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?

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