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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Nations.
(b) Dominions.
(c) Principalities.
(d) Kingdoms.

2. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?
(a) Zopyrus.
(b) Antipater.
(c) Damocrates.
(d) Galen.

3. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) The geography of illness.
(b) Why illness is a metaphor.
(c) The topography of illness.
(d) How illness as been used as a metaphor.

4. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) A Psychiatrist's World.
(b) The Human Mind.
(c) Main Against Himself.
(d) The Vital Balance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

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

3. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

4. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

5. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

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