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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Rejected.
(b) Snubbed.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Shunned.

2. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) Why illness is a metaphor.
(b) The topography of illness.
(c) The geography of illness.
(d) How illness as been used as a metaphor.

3. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Cholera.
(c) TB.
(d) Scarlet fever.

4. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1495.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1516.
(d) 1489.

5. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

2. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?

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

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

5. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

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