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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 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Islam.
(d) Catholicism.

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

3. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1548.
(b) 1617.
(c) 1528.
(d) 1602.

4. How do disease metaphors judge society?
(a) As out of balance.
(b) As repressive.
(c) As autocratic.
(d) As authoritarian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Stendhal write Armance?

2. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?

3. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?

4. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?

5. When was Trotsky banished from the Soviet Union?

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