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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) The Magic Mountain.
(b) Silvercrest.
(c) Saranac Lake.
(d) Rockhaven.

2. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?
(a) Uprising.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Revolt.
(d) Insurrection.

3. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) TB.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Plague.
(d) Typhus.

4. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) 1700s.
(c) 1800s.
(d) Last 200 years.

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) Middle stage.
(b) 3rd stage.
(c) Last stage.
(d) 4th stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

2. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

3. When did Stendhal write Armance?

4. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?

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

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