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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 Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1781.

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

3. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffectual.
(b) Ineffective.
(c) Inefficacious.
(d) Incompetent.

4. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?
(a) Tuberculosis and cancer.
(b) Heart disease and diabetes.
(c) Pulmonary disease and Alzheimer's.
(d) Cirrhosis and diabetes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was streptomycin discovered?

2. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

3. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?

4. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?

5. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

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