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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1874.

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

3. 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.

4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) October 1917.
(b) September 1917.
(c) July 1917.
(d) August 1917.

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1885.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

2. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

3. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

4. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?

5. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?

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