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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Late 18th century.
(b) Early 18th century.
(c) Mid-19th century.
(d) Early 19th century.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

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

5. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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