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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Intractable and capricious.
(b) Stubborn and incurable.
(c) Unmanageable and deadly.
(d) Hopeless and fatal.

3. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) March 1924.
(b) June 1924.
(c) May 1924.
(d) April 1924.

4. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1780-1781.
(b) 1799-1800.
(c) 1790-1791.
(d) 1800-1801.

5. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1529.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1531.
(d) 1513.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

2. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?

3. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

4. How do disease metaphors judge society?

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

(see the answer key)

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