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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, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Chlamydia.
(b) Gonorrhea.
(c) Herpes.
(d) Syphilis.

2. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Vitality.
(b) Passion.
(c) Fervor.
(d) Ardor.

3. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?
(a) Boston.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

4. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) University of California.
(b) Harvard Medical School.
(c) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.
(d) Yale University.

5. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
(a) Cancercapsule.
(b) Cancerqueen.
(c) CancerRocket.
(d) Cancership.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?

2. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?

3. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?

4. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

5. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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