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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1862.

3. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Plague.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Cholera.

4. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Inefficacious.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Ineffective.

5. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

2. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

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

4. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?

5. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?

(see the answer key)

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