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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1872.

2. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Romania.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Bulgaria.

3. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Jesse James.
(b) Pancho Villa.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Doc Holliday.

4. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Crime.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Larceny.
(d) Theft.

5. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?
(a) Ravages of vexation.
(b) Ravages of frustration.
(c) Ravages of resentment.
(d) Ravages of bitterness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

2. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

3. What does Sontag call illness?

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

5. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

(see the answer key)

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