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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Adulation.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Affection.
(d) Love.

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

3. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?
(a) Sterilization practices.
(b) Decontamination practices.
(c) Disinfection practices.
(d) Sanitation practices.

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

5. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
(a) Being erotic.
(b) Libidinous behavior.
(c) Indulging in the carnal.
(d) Liberated sexual life.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?

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

3. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

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

5. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

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