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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Shunned.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Snubbed.

2. 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) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Infraction.

3. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Incompetent.
(b) Inefficacious.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) Ineffectual.

4. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Pancho Villa.
(b) Jesse James.
(c) Doc Holliday.
(d) Billy the Kid.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

4. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

5. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

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