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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 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Dissolute.
(b) Hedonic and intermperate.
(c) Depraved and lascivious.
(d) Reckless and sensual.

2. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1529.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1531.
(d) 1513.

3. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?
(a) Helium.
(b) Ozone.
(c) Argon.
(d) Orgone.

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

5. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Rome.
(c) Naples.
(d) Sicily.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?

2. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

3. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

4. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

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

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