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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Does not knock before it enters.
(b) Exposes weakness.
(c) Barges in the door.
(d) Tears down defenses.

2. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1944.

3. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 99 pounds.
(b) 110 pounds.
(c) 105 pounds.
(d) 115 pounds.

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

5. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Infraction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of mark was it to be sad?

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

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

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

(see the answer key)

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