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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Gripee.
(b) Croak.
(c) Crustacean.
(d) Crab.

2. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?
(a) Invasive.
(b) Combative.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Incursive.

3. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Soul.
(c) Will.
(d) Personality.

4. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1617.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1528.
(d) 1602.

5. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Islam.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

2. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

3. How many organs can TB affect?

4. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

5. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

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