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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Crustacean.
(b) Crab.
(c) Croak.
(d) Gripee.

2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Ares.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Athena.

3. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 14th century.
(b) 15th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 17th century.

4. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
(a) Cancership.
(b) CancerRocket.
(c) Cancercapsule.
(d) Cancerqueen.

5. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Herpes.
(c) Gonorrhea.
(d) Chlamydia.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

2. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

3. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

4. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

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