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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) The geography of illness.
(b) The topography of illness.
(c) Why illness is a metaphor.
(d) How illness as been used as a metaphor.

2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1852.

3. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1890.

4. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Theft.
(b) Larceny.
(c) Crime.
(d) Thievery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

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

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