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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) 1800s.
(c) Last 200 years.
(d) 1700s.

2. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) De-stigmatize it.
(b) Re-imagine it.
(c) De-mythicize it.
(d) Change the vision.

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Dread.
(b) Horror.
(c) Panic.
(d) Anxiety.

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

5. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1852.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

3. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

4. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got 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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