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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Vigor.
(b) Passion.
(c) Zest.
(d) Ardor.

2. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?
(a) White plague.
(b) Scofula.
(c) Wasting disease.
(d) Consumption.

3. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1627.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1611.
(d) 1676.

4. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Naples.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Rome.

5. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Early 18th century.
(c) Early 19th century.
(d) Late 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

5. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

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