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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 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Plague.
(d) TB.

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of restraint.
(b) Disease of repression.
(c) Disease of suprression.
(d) Disease of inhibition.

3. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Gravid.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Gestation.

4. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1847.

5. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
(a) Soul.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Personality.
(d) Will.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

2. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?

3. When was streptomycin discovered?

4. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

5. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

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