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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?
(a) Scofula.
(b) Wasting disease.
(c) Consumption.
(d) White plague.

2. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Kingdoms.
(b) Principalities.
(c) Nations.
(d) Dominions.

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Dread.
(b) Horror.
(c) Panic.
(d) Anxiety.

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

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Palermo.
(b) Venice.
(c) Naples.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

2. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

3. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

4. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

5. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

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