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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Revolt.
(c) Insurrection.
(d) Uprising.

2. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Figure.
(c) Logotype.
(d) Emblem.

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

4. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Tony.
(c) Martin.
(d) Willy.

5. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

2. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?

3. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

4. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?

5. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?

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