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

2. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1872.

3. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) February 1828.
(b) January 1828.
(c) March 1828.
(d) April 1828.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main symptom of TB?

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

3. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

4. What does Sontag call illness?

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

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