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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) Everyone.
(b) 95 percent of the population.
(c) Almost everyone.
(d) 50 percent of the population.

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

3. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Endemic.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Contagious.
(d) Infectious.

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

5. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Panic.
(c) Horror.
(d) Dread.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

2. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

3. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

4. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

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

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