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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1977.

2. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Passion.
(b) Zest.
(c) Vigor.
(d) Ardor.

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

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

5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Isolated.
(b) Set apart.
(c) Connected.
(d) Involved.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?

3. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?

4. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

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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