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

2. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) 50 percent of the population.
(b) Almost everyone.
(c) Everyone.
(d) 95 percent of the population.

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

4. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1876.

5. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Crustacean.
(b) Croak.
(c) Crab.
(d) Gripee.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

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

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

4. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

5. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?

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