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

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

3. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Fanaticism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Utopianism.

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

5. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Dissolute.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Depraved and lascivious.
(d) Hedonic and intermperate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

2. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

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

4. When did Alice James die from cancer?

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

(see the answer key)

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