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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 the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1879.

2. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Vigor.
(b) Passion.
(c) Zest.
(d) Ardor.

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

4. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Late 18th century.
(c) Early 18th century.
(d) Early 19th century.

5. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) Why illness is a metaphor.
(b) The geography of illness.
(c) How illness as been used as a metaphor.
(d) The topography of illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many organs can TB affect?

2. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

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

4. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

5. What is the main symptom of TB?

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