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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 contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Breach.
(b) Infraction.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Encroachment.

2. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) Death tiptoeing.
(b) Night-side of life.
(c) A knock on the door.
(d) A walk on the wrong side of the street.

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

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

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1930s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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