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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) 95 percent of the population.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Almost everyone.
(d) 50 percent of the population.

2. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Affection.
(c) Adulation.
(d) Love.

3. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?
(a) Sterilization practices.
(b) Disinfection practices.
(c) Sanitation practices.
(d) Decontamination practices.

4. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Inward burning.
(b) Inward flame.
(c) Being ablaze.
(d) Being enflamed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

2. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

3. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

4. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

(see the answer key)

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