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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Billy the Kid.
(b) Doc Holliday.
(c) Jesse James.
(d) Pancho Villa.

3. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1403.
(b) 1386.
(c) 1398.
(d) 1411.

4. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) De-stigmatize it.
(b) Change the vision.
(c) De-mythicize it.
(d) Re-imagine it.

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) Middle stage.
(b) 3rd stage.
(c) 4th stage.
(d) Last stage.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Stendhal write Armance?

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

5. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

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