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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He embraced love.
(b) He withdrew from love.
(c) He embraced his sexual nature.
(d) He repressed his sexual nature.

4. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Shunned.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Snubbed.
(d) Neglected.

5. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Romania.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Hungary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

2. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

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

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

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

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