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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1884.

3. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Shunned.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Snubbed.

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

5. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Coughing.
(b) Congestion.
(c) Wheezing.
(d) Breathlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

2. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

3. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

4. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

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