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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Untimely Mediations.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) Human, All Too Human.
(d) The Will to Power.

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

3. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1671.
(b) 1683.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1679.

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Vicious and unrelenting.
(b) Fierce and unyielding.
(c) Ruthless and secret.
(d) Savage and ferocious.

5. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Panic.
(b) Horror.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Dread.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?

3. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?

4. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?

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

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