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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) 1548.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1528.
(d) 1617.

2. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) May 1924.
(b) June 1924.
(c) March 1924.
(d) April 1924.

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

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

5. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Ardor.
(c) Gusto.
(d) Fervour.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

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

3. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

4. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

5. When did Alice James die from cancer?

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