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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?
(a) Character.
(b) Punishment.
(c) Sin.
(d) Absolution.

3. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Billy the Kid.
(b) Jesse James.
(c) Pancho Villa.
(d) Doc Holliday.

4. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He gave up.
(c) He withdrew from life.
(d) He remained unhappily married.

5. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) The Magic Mountain.
(b) Rockhaven.
(c) Saranac Lake.
(d) Silvercrest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

3. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

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

5. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

(see the answer key)

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