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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He remained unhappily married.
(b) He withdrew from life.
(c) He gave up.
(d) He yielded to resignation.

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

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

4. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
(a) Libidinous behavior.
(b) Indulging in the carnal.
(c) Being erotic.
(d) Liberated sexual life.

5. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 2.
(b) 11.
(c) 1.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Stendhal write Armance?

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

3. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

4. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

(see the answer key)

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