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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) De-mythicize it.
(b) Change the vision.
(c) De-stigmatize it.
(d) Re-imagine it.

2. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) 1800s.
(b) Last century.
(c) Last 200 years.
(d) 1700s.

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

4. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1398.
(b) 1403.
(c) 1411.
(d) 1386.

5. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1786.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag call illness?

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

3. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?

4. How many organs can TB affect?

5. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

(see the answer key)

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