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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Stubborn and incurable.
(b) Unmanageable and deadly.
(c) Hopeless and fatal.
(d) Intractable and capricious.

2. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?
(a) Scofula.
(b) White plague.
(c) Wasting disease.
(d) Consumption.

3. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Infraction.
(c) Breach.
(d) Trespass.

4. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) Change the vision.
(b) Re-imagine it.
(c) De-stigmatize it.
(d) De-mythicize it.

5. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Endemic.
(c) Contagious.
(d) Infectious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

2. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

3. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

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

5. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

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