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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 required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Confessing sin.
(b) Asserting the will.
(c) Abstaining from sin.
(d) Strong mental attitude.

2. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Trespass.
(b) Infraction.
(c) Breach.
(d) Encroachment.

3. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) Yale University.
(b) University of California.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

3. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

4. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?

5. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?

(see the answer key)

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