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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, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

2. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?
(a) Adler.
(b) Fromm.
(c) Reich.
(d) Marcuse.

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

4. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Frenzy.
(b) Mania.
(c) Hyperactivity.
(d) Hysterics.

5. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?
(a) The Cricket on the Hearth.
(b) Dombey and Son.
(c) Barnaby Rudge.
(d) The Pickwick Papers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?

2. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?

3. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

4. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

5. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?

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