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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1516.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1503.
(d) 1489.

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

4. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Late 18th century.
(c) Early 18th century.
(d) Early 19th century.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

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

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

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

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