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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 English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1842.

2. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Does not knock before it enters.
(b) Exposes weakness.
(c) Barges in the door.
(d) Tears down defenses.

3. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Naples.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

4. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Gusto.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Fervour.
(d) Ardor.

5. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
(a) Cholera.
(b) TB.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Scarlet fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?

2. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

3. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

4. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

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