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

2. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

3. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 19, 1820.
(b) November 23, 1820.
(c) November 1, 1820.
(d) November 30, 1820.

4. When did an officer with the Christian Lebanese rightist forces call the Palestine refugee camp of Tal Zaatar a cancer?
(a) July 1976.
(b) August 1976.
(c) September 1976.
(d) October 1976.

5. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) De-mythicize it.
(b) Change the vision.
(c) Re-imagine it.
(d) De-stigmatize it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?

2. As depicted in the book La Gangrene, when did the French use torture in Algeria?

3. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?

4. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?

5. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

(see the answer key)

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