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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Snubbed.
(b) Shunned.
(c) Rejected.
(d) Neglected.

3. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Dominions.
(b) Principalities.
(c) Nations.
(d) Kingdoms.

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

5. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Inefficacious.
(b) Ineffective.
(c) Ineffectual.
(d) Incompetent.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was streptomycin discovered?

2. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

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

4. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

5. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?

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