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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Fervour.
(b) Gusto.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Ardor.

3. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Passion.
(b) Zest.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Vigor.

4. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffectual.
(b) Incompetent.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) Inefficacious.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

3. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

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

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

(see the answer key)

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