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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?
(a) Uprising.
(b) Insurrection.
(c) Revolt.
(d) Rebellion.

2. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He withdrew from love.
(b) He embraced love.
(c) He repressed his sexual nature.
(d) He embraced his sexual nature.

3. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Adulation.
(c) Affection.
(d) Love.

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

5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Connected.
(b) Involved.
(c) Isolated.
(d) Set apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

2. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?

3. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?

4. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

5. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?

(see the answer key)

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