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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 the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1876.

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

3. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1911.

4. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1872.

5. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1889.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

2. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

3. What is the main symptom of TB?

4. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

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