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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?
(a) Heart disease and diabetes.
(b) Pulmonary disease and Alzheimer's.
(c) Tuberculosis and cancer.
(d) Cirrhosis and diabetes.

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

3. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) April 1924.
(b) March 1924.
(c) May 1924.
(d) June 1924.

4. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1850s.

5. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 25.
(b) 2.
(c) 11.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

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

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

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

5. What does Sontag call illness?

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