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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Infectious.
(d) Endemic.

3. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Gripee.
(b) Crustacean.
(c) Croak.
(d) Crab.

4. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Stubborn and incurable.
(b) Hopeless and fatal.
(c) Unmanageable and deadly.
(d) Intractable and capricious.

5. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?
(a) Galen.
(b) Antipater.
(c) Damocrates.
(d) Zopyrus.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

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

3. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

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

5. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

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