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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 compare illness and being well to?
(a) Nations.
(b) Dominions.
(c) Principalities.
(d) Kingdoms.

2. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1741.
(d) 1737.

3. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Fervour.
(c) Gusto.
(d) Emotion.

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

5. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1840s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

2. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?

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

4. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

5. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

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