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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 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Hopeless and fatal.
(b) Unmanageable and deadly.
(c) Stubborn and incurable.
(d) Intractable and capricious.

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

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

4. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Late 18th century.
(c) Early 19th century.
(d) Early 18th century.

5. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) William Blake.
(d) John Keats.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

2. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

3. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

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

5. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?

(see the answer key)

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