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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1923.

3. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Chicago.
(b) London.
(c) Munich.
(d) Washington, D.C.

4. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 19, 1820.
(b) July 11, 1820.
(c) July 3, 1820.
(d) July 27, 1820.

5. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Ruthless and secret.
(b) Fierce and unyielding.
(c) Vicious and unrelenting.
(d) Savage and ferocious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

3. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

4. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?

5. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?

(see the answer key)

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