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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) The Magic Mountain.
(b) Silvercrest.
(c) Rockhaven.
(d) Saranac Lake.

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

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

4. 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.

5. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) February 1828.
(b) January 1828.
(c) March 1828.
(d) April 1828.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

3. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

5. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

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