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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1671.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1679.
(d) 1683.

2. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?
(a) Ravages of frustration.
(b) Ravages of resentment.
(c) Ravages of bitterness.
(d) Ravages of vexation.

3. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) A knock on the door.
(b) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(c) Night-side of life.
(d) Death tiptoeing.

4. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?
(a) 1780s.
(b) Mid-19th century.
(c) 1850s.
(d) Mid-18th century.

5. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

4. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

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

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