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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1790.

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

3. 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.

4. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Incompetent.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Inefficacious.
(d) Ineffective.

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 4th stage.
(b) Last stage.
(c) Middle stage.
(d) 3rd stage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

3. How many organs can TB affect?

4. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

5. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

(see the answer key)

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