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

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1843.

3. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?
(a) Psychological judgement.
(b) Lack os self-control.
(c) Lack of inhibition.
(d) Moral judgment.

4. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Confessing sin.
(b) Strong mental attitude.
(c) Abstaining from sin.
(d) Asserting the will.

5. According to Herbert Snow, out of 140 cases of breast cancer, how many gave an account of previous mental trouble, hard work, or other problems?
(a) 87.
(b) 103.
(c) 109.
(d) 98.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?

2. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

3. When was Trotsky banished from the Soviet Union?

4. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

5. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

(see the answer key)

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