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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 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1911.

2. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Larceny.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Crime.
(d) Theft.

3. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) April 9, 1821.
(b) January 19, 1821.
(c) March 6, 1821.
(d) February 24, 1821.

4. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1874.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

2. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

3. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

5. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?

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