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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Lack of love.
(b) Disconnection.
(c) Separation.
(d) Isolation.

2. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) TB.
(c) Typus.
(d) Scarlet fever.

3. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?
(a) Defenseless and open.
(b) Vulnerable and self-destructive.
(c) Susceptible and weak.
(d) Exposed and endangered.

4. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1741.
(c) 1737.
(d) 1759.

5. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?
(a) Coleridge.
(b) Hume.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Voltaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

2. When was the influenza pandemic?

3. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?

4. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?

5. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

(see the answer key)

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