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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Pancho Villa.
(b) Jesse James.
(c) Doc Holliday.
(d) Billy the Kid.

3. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1627.
(c) 1611.
(d) 1676.

4. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Florence.
(b) Venice.
(c) Palermo.
(d) Naples.

5. When did Keats die?
(a) January 1821.
(b) November 1820.
(c) February 1821.
(d) December 1820.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

3. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

4. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?

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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