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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 thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Hysterics.
(b) Frenzy.
(c) Hyperactivity.
(d) Mania.

2. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 1/4 or 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/8.
(d) 2/3 or 3/5.

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

4. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?
(a) Fort Worth, Texas.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Denver, Colorado.
(d) Tulsa, Oklahoma.

5. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) April 9, 1821.
(b) March 6, 1821.
(c) February 24, 1821.
(d) January 19, 1821.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

2. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?

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

4. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?

5. What does Sontag call illness?

(see the answer key)

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