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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?
(a) Counterstrike.
(b) Counterassault.
(c) Counterattack.
(d) Neutralization.

2. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He remained unhappily married.
(b) He withdrew from life.
(c) He yielded to resignation.
(d) He gave up.

3. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Gusto.
(b) Ardor.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Fervour.

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

5. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) Silvercrest.
(b) Saranac Lake.
(c) Rockhaven.
(d) The Magic Mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

2. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?

3. When did an an inadvertent experiement with chemical warfare lead to the use of cancer drugs?

4. What type of mark was it to be sad?

5. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?

(see the answer key)

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