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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) Main Against Himself.
(b) A Psychiatrist's World.
(c) The Human Mind.
(d) The Vital Balance.

2. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 14th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 15th century.
(d) 17th century.

3. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Does not knock before it enters.
(b) Barges in the door.
(c) Exposes weakness.
(d) Tears down defenses.

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

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 3rd stage.
(b) 4th stage.
(c) Last stage.
(d) Middle stage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

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

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

5. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

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