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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 17th century.

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1847.

3. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) Main Against Himself.
(b) The Human Mind.
(c) A Psychiatrist's World.
(d) The Vital Balance.

4. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Infraction.

5. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) The Magic Mountain.
(b) Silvercrest.
(c) Saranac Lake.
(d) Rockhaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

2. What is the main symptom of TB?

3. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

4. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

5. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?

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