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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Zest.
(b) Vigor.
(c) Passion.
(d) Ardor.

2. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Lawyer.

3. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1798.

4. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Fervor.
(c) Passion.
(d) Vitality.

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Florence.
(b) Venice.
(c) Palermo.
(d) Naples.

Short Answer Questions

1. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

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

4. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

5. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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