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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) August 1917.
(b) October 1917.
(c) November 1917.
(d) September 1917.

2. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) A Psychiatrist's World.
(b) Main Against Himself.
(c) The Human Mind.
(d) The Vital Balance.

3. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1917.

4. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Chicago.
(b) London.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Munich.

5. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Early 18th century.
(c) Early 19th century.
(d) Late 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

3. When did Stendhal write Armance?

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

5. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

(see the answer key)

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