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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Fervor.
(b) Vitality.
(c) Passion.
(d) Ardor.

2. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He withdrew from life.
(c) He gave up.
(d) He remained unhappily married.

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

4. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Snubbed.
(b) Neglected.
(c) Shunned.
(d) Rejected.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

2. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?

3. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

4. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

5. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

(see the answer key)

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