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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Plague.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Smallpox.

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

3. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Hedonic and intermperate.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Depraved and lascivious.
(d) Dissolute.

4. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Lung.
(b) Liver.
(c) Colon.
(d) Stomach.

5. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Wheezing.
(b) Congestion.
(c) Coughing.
(d) Breathlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

2. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?

3. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

4. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?

5. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

(see the answer key)

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