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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 Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1548.
(b) 1617.
(c) 1528.
(d) 1602.

2. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?
(a) 1880s.
(b) 1790s.
(c) Early 19th century.
(d) Late 18th century.

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

4. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) Middle stage.
(b) Last stage.
(c) 3rd stage.
(d) 4th stage.

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

2. What is the main symptom of TB?

3. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

4. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

5. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

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