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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of restraint.
(b) Disease of suprression.
(c) Disease of repression.
(d) Disease of inhibition.

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

3. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be carefree.
(b) Be cheerful.
(c) Be content.
(d) Be optimistic.

4. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Separation.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Lack of love.
(d) Disconnection.

5. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Megara.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Baris.
(d) Argos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?

3. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

5. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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