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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1930s.

3. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Fanaticism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Utopianism.

4. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Tears down defenses.
(b) Barges in the door.
(c) Exposes weakness.
(d) Does not knock before it enters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

2. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

3. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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