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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1911.

2. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
(a) Impoverishment.
(b) Penury.
(c) Insolvency.
(d) Bankruptcy.

3. When did edmund Burke write Reflections on the Revolution in France?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1793.

4. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Romania.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

5. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1876.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alice James die from cancer?

2. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

3. What does Sontag call illness?

4. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

5. When did John Adams write in his diary that his country was in trouble and worn out by struggling, "Venality, Servility and Prostitution, eat and spread like a Cancer" (80)?

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