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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 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Infectious.
(d) Endemic.

2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Athena.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Ares.

3. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He gave up.
(c) He remained unhappily married.
(d) He withdrew from life.

4. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Plague.
(b) Typhus.
(c) TB.
(d) Scarlet fever.

5. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?
(a) Fromm.
(b) Reich.
(c) Adler.
(d) Marcuse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?

3. How did Machiavelli believe that "proper statecraft . . . can prevent a fatal disorder"?

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

5. When did Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?

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