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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Rome.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Venice.

4. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Plague.
(d) Cholera.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag call illness?

2. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

3. What is the main symptom of TB?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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