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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1917.

3. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?
(a) Ravages of bitterness.
(b) Ravages of vexation.
(c) Ravages of frustration.
(d) Ravages of resentment.

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

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1883.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

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

3. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?

4. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

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

(see the answer key)

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