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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Fervour.
(d) Gusto.

2. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He withdrew from love.
(b) He embraced love.
(c) He embraced his sexual nature.
(d) He repressed his sexual nature.

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

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

5. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Philanthrophy.
(b) Uninhibited sex.
(c) Love affair.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

3. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

4. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

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

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