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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Dominions.
(b) Nations.
(c) Kingdoms.
(d) Principalities.

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1683.
(d) 1679.

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Dread.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Panic.
(d) Horror.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

5. What does Sontag call illness?

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