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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) TB.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Plague.

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

3. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Colon.
(b) Lung.
(c) Stomach.
(d) Liver.

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1627.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1611.

5. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1741.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1768.
(d) 1737.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

3. What type of mark was it to be sad?

4. What is the main symptom of TB?

5. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

(see the answer key)

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